artful at rogers.com
artful at rogers.com
Fri Feb 16 14:43:25 CST 2007
Quite right, and insofar as you resolve the late-bind issue asap, then such binding shall not impede the subsequent performance of your app. Having resolved it once, the app will behave as if it were early-bound thereafter. A. ----- Original Message ---- From: Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 2:36:22 PM Subject: Re: [AccessD] Missing references Hi Jim: The main reason for using late-binding is that an application developer does not know what version of Word or Excel is on the clients' computer until the application is run. By checking the local references a program can then adapt to its' current surroundings; but this requires a late-binding design. Just a comment Jim