References screwed up.

[Mike MacSween]

I've done an Access app that does some Word automation. The code is long but
the meat of it is:

Sub testword()
Dim wrdapp As Word.Application
Set wrdapp = New Word.Application
wrdapp.Visible = True
End Sub

Early binding, yes?

This worked. Now it's producing:

'Run-time error 48

Error loading dll'

I've tried many things:

I reset the references. I imported all the objects into a new database. I
created a completely new database with one form, one command button and the
code above. I have progressively removed Office2003 beta, Office XP, Office
2000, leaving myself with only Office 97 on the machine. Still the result
above.

This code used to work fine, now it doesn't. What I think I've done in the
meantime is move my install of Office 2002. Office 97 and 2000 were in their
own directories. But when I installed Office 2002 IIRC, it got installed as
a sub directory in the 2000 directory. So I uninstalled and re-installed in
it's own directory. My memory of the exact sequence is hazy. I may well have
re-installed the Office 2003 beta too.

A clue however is that over the last day that I've been trying to sort this
out, quite often the only Word reference that is offered is one to Word 11
(2003, yes), even after that version has been removed. I can browse to
MSWord9.obj (or whatever its called) fine and mark it as a reference. But it
doesn't work.

It appears that whatever happens and _early binding_ reference to Word
automation it trying to find the Word 11 library. And failing. I've always
been able to start the appropriate version of Word itself, by the way, so
presumably it's some dll which that calls. Infact if I open task manager
there are often several versions of winword.exe running, all the failed
attempts I guess.

I'm guessing this is a registry thing. I've search the archives, MS site
etc. Late binding works, and I know many will say that's what I should be
using. Nevertheless I'd like this to work as it is, and not be forced into
using late binding as a workaround. References to Excel work just fine,
early binding too.

Anybody got any clues?

Yours, Mike MacSween

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Mike,

I agree it's probably a screw up in the Registry. Have you done Run/Regedit
and searched Word.Application? I might try that, deleting everything you
come across (after installing all versions of Office), then try a reinstall.

It appears that whatever happens and _early binding_ reference to Word
automation it trying to find the Word 11 library. And failing. I've always
been able to start the appropriate version of Word itself, by the way, so
presumably it's some dll which that calls. Infact if I open task manager
there are often several versions of winword.exe running, all the failed
attempts I guess.

I'm guessing this is a registry thing.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan 24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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