Can I create an exe with report gen addon using office 2000 and run it on a PC with XP?

[Budman]

I have create an executable using the report generation toolkit on a PC that has Office 2000. When I load the executable on a PC with office XP, It will not launch excel. Should the exe be compatible with either version of office? What do I need to do to make it work on both versions?

[EL1]

When you install the newest version of the Report Generation Toolkit on the development machine it will ask you which verison of MS Office you have. Only one instance of the Toolkit can be installed on a computer at one time. The executable must be recompiled for each version of MS Office, because some features have change between versions.

[waldemar.hersacher]

Hi Budman,

You should have created the executable in the way as is described here.

On your target machine you have to use the _wordsub.llb resp. _excelsub.llb which belongs to the MS Office version of that machine. The different versions are on the installation CD of the toolkit.

If you have these files in the support directory you do not need to create different exes for different MS Office versions.

Waldemar