How to know if M$ Office Excel is installed or not !?

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How to know if M$ Office Excel is installed or not !?
If it is installed, how to retrieve its full path to open an .xlsx file using CreateProcess() function !?

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Posted 7-Dec-12 16:24pm

Mr. Tomay

Updated 7-Dec-12 16:25pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-07T17:37:00

Solution 1

You can find it looking at the file name associations stored in the system registry. This article explains it:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749986.aspx[^].

—SA

Posted 7-Dec-12 17:37pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Jochen Arndt · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-07T22:01:00

Solution 2

See the KB article How To Find the Path and Version of an Office Application from Visual C++[^].
[EDIT]
And this one How to Determine the Path for an Office Application[^]
[/EDIT]

Posted 7-Dec-12 22:01pm

Jochen Arndt

Updated 7-Dec-12 22:06pm

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