>Correct. "excel.application.9" for Excel 2000 and "excel.application.11" for the new Excel 2003 Beta.
o=createobject("excel.application") would return the latest version you have installed.
>...As Hillmar pointed out>o=createobject("excel.application")
>? o.Name, o.Version, o.Build
>would tell you what you have. Great!, but... I didn't see Hilmar at this conversation <g>