Microsoft KB Archive/189609

= INFO: Cannot Automate Word, Excel, or PowerPoint Viewers =

Article ID: 189609

Article Last Modified on 1/23/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications 5.0
 * Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q189609



SUMMARY
The viewers for Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint were not designed to support automation. They cannot be automated.



MORE INFORMATION
Because of the nature of the PowerPoint application, PowerPoint has a built-in viewer. Such viewers are not needed in other products. If you have PowerPoint installed, you can automate PowerPoint's built-in viewer. However, if you have only the PowerPoint viewer, it cannot be automated. Attempting to use the PowerPoint object library to do so will not work, and is a violation of licensing agreements (it is not redistributable.)

Keywords: kbautomation kbinfo KB189609

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