References

[Terry]

I have dual loaded Office installations, Office 97 and 2003. The install of
Office 2003 removed the reference to MSWORD8.olb and I have to manually keep
adding it to ensure my code will run on machines that only have Office 97.

Is there a way that I can permanently add this reference on my development
machine?

Regards

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

Don't bother adding a reference. Instead, use Late Binding.

Instead of

Dim appWord As Word.Application

Set appWord = New Word.Application

you'd use:

Dim appWord As Object

Set appWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")

The only negative that I'm aware of is that you have to explicitly define
any intrinsic Word constants you might be using.

Tony Toews has a bit of information about this at
http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/latebinding.htm

 

[Terry]

Thanks Douglas,

I'll check out Tony's info.

Regards