So a mix and match situation could very well exist that would make extrapolating what version of Office is actually installed on the machine problematic. In addition, as you pointed out, it may be that one has Office 2010 installed, has Word 2003 installed as well, and maybe even Outlook 2007. You can detect the “version of Office” by querying the product version of Word / Excel / PowerPoint / Outlook, and so on Unfortunately, I cannot find a global GUID to represent the version of office that is installed. I wrote a blog in 2009 that is on the same theme using Windows PowerShell.
The blog post you mentioned was written in 2005 using VBScript. I do not really want to loop through all the available Office products. Nevertheless, how do I use this same technique to query the version of Office? In our organization, we have a mix of different versions of Office, some of which even have different versions of Word on the same machine (for backward testing of some old macros). Hey, Scripting Guy! With reference to one of your previous blog posts, “How Can I Determine Which Version of Word is Installed on a Computer?” I liked how your approach to determine the version of Word is much faster than querying Win32_Product.
Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to detect your version of Microsoft Office.
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