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From: Karl E. Peterson on 6 May 2010 18:59
Tony Jollans wrote:
>> In other words, on a system with Office 2007 installed, these statements
>> are equivalent:
>>
>> Set obj = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
>> Set obj = CreateObject("Excel.Application.12")
>>
>> But there's no reason you couldn't use this instead, if you wanted to call
>> up Office 2003:
>>
>> Set obj = CreateObject("Excel.Application.11")
>>
>> Make sense?
>
> It makes perfect sense. Unfortunately it doesn't work :-( Office does its own
> thing (as usual) and the CLSID under Excel.Application.11 and
> Excel.Application.12 is the same.

Hmmmm, this could be why I've always heard/understood that multiple
side-by-side installations didn't work.

> The only way (I know) to guarantee getting
> a particular version is to Shell the executable.

I suppose you could play around with altering the incorrect CLSID
entry? (Unless, and this would be truly evil, unless those idiots used
the same CLSID for both versions???)

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