HOWTO: View Documents with FoxPro OLE Controls without MS Office

ID: Q189281

The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, versions 5.0, 5.0a

SUMMARY

Some FoxPro applications may need to display information taken from Microsoft Office products when the end user does not own the Office Product. Microsoft provides a number of downloadable viewer products for this purpose.


MORE INFORMATION

Please use the following list of articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base for information on how to obtain these free programs:

Q163410 ODE97: Creating Run-Time Apps for MS Excel, Word, or PowerPoint
Q165908 WD97: Versions of Word Viewer Available for Download
Q166636 WD97: Frequently Asked Questions About Word Viewer 97
Q169549 OFF97: Information About The Microsoft Office ValuPack
Q170329 PPT97: Contents of PowerPoint 97 Viewer Readme.txt File
Additional file names that may be of interest are available from the Office Resource CD-ROM. There are other viewers available that may not listed in this article.


REFERENCES

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Additional query words: kbDSupport kbdse kbVFp500a kbVFp500 kbInterOp

Keywords :
Version : WINDOWS:5.0,5.0a
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbhowto


Last Reviewed: August 10, 1999
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