dynamic linking/referencing Office libraries

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Good Day All
How does one dynaically link/reference another Office library. e.g. If an
Access application needs to use the Excel library in VBA code, how do I
dynamically determine which one is installed/available, e.g. Excel 8/9/10/11
etc, and link use the optimal one? (As opposed to hardwired
'Tools/References')
thanks
 
NJS said:
How does one dynaically link/reference another Office library. e.g. If an
Access application needs to use the Excel library in VBA code, how do I
dynamically determine which one is installed/available, e.g. Excel 8/9/10/11
etc, and link use the optimal one? (As opposed to hardwired
'Tools/References')
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You don't need to create a reference at all. Besides you can't change
references in an MDE. Use late binding instead.

Late binding means you can safely remove the reference and only have
an error when the app executes lines of code in question. Rather than
erroring out while starting up the app and not allowing the users in
the app at all. Or when hitting a mid, left or trim function call.

You'll want to install the reference if you are programming or
debugging and want to use the object intellisense while in the VBA
editor. Then,. once your app is running smoothly, remove the
reference and setup the late binding statements.

Sample code:
' Declare an object variable to hold the object
' reference. Dim as Object causes late binding.
Dim objWordDoc As Object
Set objWordDoc = CreateObject(" Word.Document")

For more information including additional text and some detailed links
see the "Late Binding in Microsoft Access" page at
http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/latebinding.htm

Tony
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NJS said:
I suspcted as much, but needed the intellisense/deugging option
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Oh, I quite agree. That web page should show you how to switch
between using the intellisense for development and debugging and to
using late binding once that code is working.

Tony
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