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How to check programmatically if Excel is installed?
Hello,
What will be the best way to check if Excel is installed and what is the name of executable? Is it always excel.exe? I think some older version had msexcel.exe, but I can be mistaken. Your thoughts please, Claire |
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How to check programmatically if Excel is installed?
Claire
By "programmatically" I take it that you mean VBA in Excel. To run any VBA macro in Excel you must first have to have Excel installed. Or did I miss something? HTH Otto "Claire" <replyto@fra wrote in message ... Hello, What will be the best way to check if Excel is installed and what is the name of executable? Is it always excel.exe? I think some older version had msexcel.exe, but I can be mistaken. Your thoughts please, Claire |
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How to check programmatically if Excel is installed?
I would try to start it and if it failed to start, then I know it's not
available. Are you using VBA or VBS or what? In VBA: Dim xlApp As Object On Error Resume Next Set xlApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application") If Err.Number < 0 Then Err.Clear MsgBox "Not there" Else MsgBox "yep, it's there" xlApp.Close End If On Error GoTo 0 VBS is pretty much the same--just drop the "as object" in the Dim statement. Claire wrote: Hello, What will be the best way to check if Excel is installed and what is the name of executable? Is it always excel.exe? I think some older version had msexcel.exe, but I can be mistaken. Your thoughts please, Claire -- Dave Peterson |
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How to check programmatically if Excel is installed?
Sorry, I missed that.
I am programming in old vbasic (ver.6). My app needs to check if the Excel (any version) is installed on target computer. Claire "Claire" <replyto@fra wrote in message ... Hello, What will be the best way to check if Excel is installed and what is the name of executable? Is it always excel.exe? I think some older version had msexcel.exe, but I can be mistaken. Your thoughts please, Claire |
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How to check programmatically if Excel is installed?
I don't speak the VB. But did you try the createobject() suggestion?
Claire wrote: Sorry, I missed that. I am programming in old vbasic (ver.6). My app needs to check if the Excel (any version) is installed on target computer. Claire "Claire" <replyto@fra wrote in message ... Hello, What will be the best way to check if Excel is installed and what is the name of executable? Is it always excel.exe? I think some older version had msexcel.exe, but I can be mistaken. Your thoughts please, Claire -- Dave Peterson |
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How to check programmatically if Excel is installed?
I am not asking about code.
I am asking just in general. Is anybody in this group able to answer at least this question posted initially " Is it always excel.exe? I think some older version had msexcel.exe, but I can be mistaken. " Claire "Dave Peterson" wrote in message ... I don't speak the VB. But did you try the createobject() suggestion? Claire wrote: Sorry, I missed that. I am programming in old vbasic (ver.6). My app needs to check if the Excel (any version) is installed on target computer. Claire "Claire" <replyto@fra wrote in message ... Hello, What will be the best way to check if Excel is installed and what is the name of executable? Is it always excel.exe? I think some older version had msexcel.exe, but I can be mistaken. Your thoughts please, Claire -- Dave Peterson |
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How to check programmatically if Excel is installed?
Claire -
Is it always excel.exe? < I just checked my own computer(s), and the name of the Excel executable is excel.exe on all six of these: Excel 97 SR-2 2000 SP3 2002 SP3 2003 SP3 2007 SP2 2010 Beta - Mike http://www.MikeMiddleton.com "Claire" <replyto@fra wrote in message ... I am not asking about code. I am asking just in general. Is anybody in this group able to answer at least this question posted initially " Is it always excel.exe? I think some older version had msexcel.exe, but I can be mistaken. " Claire "Dave Peterson" wrote in message ... I don't speak the VB. But did you try the createobject() suggestion? Claire wrote: Sorry, I missed that. I am programming in old vbasic (ver.6). My app needs to check if the Excel (any version) is installed on target computer. Claire "Claire" <replyto@fra wrote in message ... Hello, What will be the best way to check if Excel is installed and what is the name of executable? Is it always excel.exe? I think some older version had msexcel.exe, but I can be mistaken. Your thoughts please, Claire -- Dave Peterson |
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