Word and Excel not installed on machine

Hail to All,

I was wondering is there any way to open and read and write and save to Excel and word documents in a program if the machine that is being run on does not have either of thies apps installed. Are there files that I can include in my application that it could be worked on in my application and not need word or excel?

Thanks for all your help

Mythos

No you will need these programs on the system.

I don't know the code, but there is a way to see if the computer your application is being installed on has those applications installed.

I'm sure you can Google it and find it.

I use something like this

vb.net Code:

Imports Microsoft.Win32
Public Class Form1
Public Function IsAppInstalled(ByVal AppName As String) As Boolean
        Dim strSubKey As String = String.Empty
        Select Case AppName.ToUpper
            Case "ACCESS"
                strSubKey = "Access.Application"
            Case "EXCEL"
                strSubKey = "Excel.Application"
            Case "WORD"
                strSubKey = "Word.Application"
        End Select
 
        Dim objKey As RegistryKey = Registry.ClassesRoot
 
        Dim objSubKey As RegistryKey = objKey.OpenSubKey(strSubKey.ToUpper)
 
        Return Not objSubKey Is Nothing
 
        objKey.Close()
 
End Function
  
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        If IsAppInstalled("Excel") = True Then
            MessageBox.Show("Yep, it is here")
        Else
            MessageBox.Show("Nope...you gotta install it.")
        End If
End Sub
End Class