INFO: Cannot Automate Word, Excel, or PowerPoint Viewers

ID: Q189609

The information in this article applies to:

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