Was thinking of testing for the presence of Excel or ms Word and if they are not on the current pc then disabling the msGraph.

You can test for the existence of msgraph. Just look for graph.exe on the current pc and check the registry to make sure that it is registered. I think that Della and Tamar had code in the automation book that did this.

Of course, you may be able to distribute the msgraph runtime with your application. I just do not know what the situation is with that these days. You may want to post the question in an Office developers forum if we can't get clarification on the issue here.

And if you do get a more definitive answer, please come back and let us know so that others can benfit from it.

Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.