found the problem. I had a wordevents program from someone which refers to thei file. I removed it and oall is finre

thanks

Peter


>Did you try searching your project for msword? Also I don't think you need this file in your project.
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>>Thanks, I recreated the project and rebuilt the app ALL IS WELL.
>>I build an exe and it fails with an error c:\prog...\Mic...Office\Office12\msword.olb not found.
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>>we are using office 11. so I added the office11\msword.olb to the prOject (other files) and still get the message.
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>>I don't know wjhat to do next. I don't refer to an olb file anywhere, although I do use office automation
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>>Peter
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