Quote Originally Posted by dglienna View Post
Early binding works only if you know the versions deployed. Late binding will work with any version that's installed, but you can only use the lowest common features, and they'd fail in the 2000 version, for instance.
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But is it not compatible that way that I could use a Word 2000 dll and access all the common methods like ActiveDocument, Select and all that. What happens when a program compiled with a word 2000 dll is run in an 2003 enviroment ?
Are the word versions not compatible to older versions and older dlls?
( Maybe a stupid question as I never tried that but I had hoped that simple using the older version will also work when word is upgraded. )