How Can I Determine Which Version of Word is Installed on a Computer?

re: How Can I Determine Which Version of Word is Installed on a Computer?

Neal — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:44:13 GMT

Just get this registry get value and grab the version number from the end

Dim keyPath As String = "CLSID\{000209FF-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}\ProgID"

Dim regKey As Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey = Microsoft.Win32.Registry.ClassesRoot.OpenSubKey(keyPath, False)

Dim data As String = CType(regKey.GetValue(Nothing, defaultVersion), String)

I'm sure you can do the same in script

re: How Can I Determine Which Version of Word is Installed on a Computer?

Cascader — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:30:45 GMT

There are two potential problems with this approach:

1) If you use CreateObject instead of GetObject(, "Word.Application"), you might close a previously opened (i.e. by the user) instance of word.

2) If a message appears beacause of an error (i.e. the office activation wizard or a warning message etc) while the window is invisible, you application or script will hang...