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How to I identify the current Office application as 2000, 2003, 2007, etc from Com Addin?

I am building a com addin for office, word specifically right now. I need to know which version of word the host machine is running as word 2007 has a ribbon and does not support regular toolbars. Identifying the version will allow me to load the appropriate toolbars. The object I am dealing with is of type "Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.ApplicationClass" for word. It does change for other office products but I am mainly interested in Word right now.
MsgBox(applicationObject.version) will return the version number of the office release.

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Joanne M. Orzech

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No I don't think you are completely off the mark as I am looking for any solution to this problem. I was hoping for a simpler and probably more reliable method such a property of Word that identifies its version. My project is a com addin which opens with Word. I think I should be able to use the opened copy of Word to get a version. I can already get a version # which is 11.0 for Word 2003 as well as Excel 2003. For Outlook 2003 it begins with 11. and goes on with more numbers. I don't know what this number signifies.

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Joanne M. Orzech

No objection to close.

Joanne M. Orzech

Thank you.