Re: Word 97 and Word 2003

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"Ralph" <nt_consulting64@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:AZudnfHdsYuqezbZnZ2dnUVZ_t2dnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


You say you are using Early and Late binding, but if your project contains
ANY reference to an office library, your are using early binding.

Not necessarily. Binding is determined by the declaration of the object variable. So, even though you may have a reference to the Word object library, if you declare the object variable 'Dim oWordApp As Object', you're using late-binding.



Your choices are 1) convert the current application to use Late binding
through-out and make no reference to a specific library/product, or 2)
convert your application (supply an new version) that accesses the Version
11 library.

Since this is an enterprise migration I would probably chose the latter.

Personally, I've never encountered a problem when early-binding to an earlier version of Office and that app running on a PC with a later version of Office. Maybe I've just been lucky.

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Mike
Microsoft MVP Visual Basic

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