Detecting the correct version of Office products with code.

[Johnny Sandaire]

Greetings,

I am trying to detect the correct version of MS Word and its
associated Office applications and I am having some difficulties.
Specifically, I am getting conflicted information for the "About.." vs
the Properties from the EXE.

For example, I have Office 2003 installed on my PC. I used the EXE
and selected Properties on MS Word. The Version number that is
returned is: 11.0.5604. However, when I run Word and go to Help -->
About, I get: 11.5604.5703

For Office 2000, the SP level is also listed in the About Box and not
certain how it will be represented in the Version infor on Properties.

Can anyone please provide the proper method to get the exact version
of Office Products so I can properly deply patches and fixes.

Any assistance is appreciated.

BTW, I am using C++ to code my application.

Thanks,

Regards,


Johnny