You can check the registry. See Re: Is Word/Excel installed Message #566432

>From within VFP, I simply want to confirm whether or not Word is installed. Obviously I can do so with --
>
>TRY
>oWord = CREATEOBJECT("Word.Application")
>CATCH
>oWord = NULL
>
>-- and then VARTYPE().
>
>Is there a better way?
>
>TIA,
>-m.