Marvin,
That is what you are doing. You are asking for a Speech object, Excel says
"Sorry I don't know what that is" and you react to it.
There is nothing wrong with dealing with errors; they provide information as
a positive result would.

I don't know if Speech is an optional installation, but you could just check
the if Application.Version10 (or 11 ?).

NickHK

"Marvin" wrote in message
...
Your approach does work. The system will return a 1004 if the feature is
not
installed. I wrote code based on this general error number but would have
preferred to get at an actual detection test for this particular feature.
Thanks for your efforts.

"Marvin" wrote:

How can I detect if the speech feature is installed in Excel?