Hi Raja

If you set references to Excel 11 object library, then it will err if Excel
11 is not there. So code to check versions won't run and it's too late. See
http://www.erlandsendata.no/english/...baoleolebasics

If you develop for multiple versions, use the oldest version yourself. No
way around that.

HTH. Best wishes Harald


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I have an application where I am referring Excel 2003 from Visual Basic
references and creating an Excel.Application object and generating a
report.
But the same functionality fails when the application is run on a machine
with Excel 97 installed in it.

The Excel object creation itself fails as path mentioned in references
does
not exist in the user's machine.

Please clarify how do I get the version of Excel without creating/using
Excel object.