>>>>An office automation program that has been running for eons is now creating files that can't be read by the recipients.
>>>>It turns out that if the W/S that creates the file is running Office 2010, the file has to have a different extension.
>>>>Of course, at this client, there are scads of different versions of Office on different W/S.
>>>>How can I determine, using Office Automation, what verion of Office is running.?
>>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>

>>>oWord = CREATEOBJECT("Word.Application")
>>>? oWord.Version
>>>

>>
>>It's really hard to figure out
>
>:o)

You shouldn't laugh at this, you should invoice all your hours of research :).