Vista - Determine which version of MS-Excel is installed

I need a VBScript that would determine which version of MS-Excel is currently
installed. Our users would either have 2003 or 2007. Is there a folder to
check for and is that the way to do it?

Thanks much in advance.

"XP" <XP@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:CF58B439-2C80-429B-9161-9BA88B935DB0@xxxxxxExcel.exe is usually kept in the Office11 folder. Filever.exe, included
with the Windows Support tools, will tell you the exact version.

Sorry, forgot to mention the context: this script will be installed and run
locally on each user's machine...

In this case, should I look for presence of Office 12 folder then for
Excel.exe? Would that be considered a reliable test...?


"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:

On Aug 4, 2:17 pm, XP <X...@xxxxxx> wrote:Maybe a direct query to Excel is a better choice ...

wsh.echo "Excel Version:", CreateObject("Excel.Application").Version

2003 Version = 11.0
2007 Version = 12.0 (I presume from your comments)

Once you have that, the name of the folder can be constructed (Office
& Split(sVersion, ".")(0)), if the file build version is needed, as
well.

Tom Lavedas
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"XP" <XP@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:43B7C577-82A0-4679-8566-4C3EDB632B26@xxxxxxSince Excel is not always located in the Offfice11 folder (note:
I wrote "Office11", you wrote "Office 12" - big difference!), you
should search all subfolders under the "Microsoft Office" folder.
You could do it like so:
@echo off
set Office=%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /s /b "%Office%\excel.exe"') do (
c:\tools\filever.exe "%%a"
)
pause

Nice, thanks!


"Tom Lavedas" wrote: