INFO: Cannot Automate Word, Excel, or PowerPoint Viewers

• Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications version 5.0
• Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows
• Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

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.)

Additional query words:

Keywords          : kbnokeyword kbAutomation kbExcel kbPowerPt kbWord kbVBA500 
Version           : WINDOWS:5.0,97
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbinfo 

Last Reviewed: June 3, 1999