[AccessD] A97 - References

You could just use late binding then it grabs the latest version available.

Terri Jarus wrote:

>You're right - olb - the one I want to keep constant is msword8.olb.  We
>are sharing the application over the network.  
>
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>>>>scott.marcus at ae.ge.com 04/07/03 12:02PM >>>
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>Do you mean 'olb' file instead of dll? Are you sharing this application
>on the
>network? I would guess that the file in question has a different name
>per
>version of word (mine is msword9.olb). You could set this reference
>based on
>which file you find on the computer. This wont work if you are sharing
>the
>application on the network.
>
>Scott
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Terri Jarus [mailto:jarus at amerinet-gpo.com] 
>Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 11:49 AM
>To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com 
>Subject: [AccessD] A97 - References
>
>
>I have several users of the same database on a network - all works
>fairly well - except, now some folks have gotten new computers and new
>versions of Access (AXP).  They also have A97 on their computer,
>because
>I don't want to switch until everyone has AXP.
>
>There is a button on a form that creates a Word document.  Since
>everyone does not have Word97 (many have WXP), I have copied the Word
>8.0 dll (set a reference) to a shared location so that this works on
>everyone's computer.  However, somehow (I don't know how) the
>reference
>is getting changed to the Word 10 dll, which screws things up.  All I
>have to do is change the reference back and all is well.
>
>Is there a way to ensure that the reference cannot be changed?
>
>Any ideas?  Let me know if this does not make sense.
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