How to check the version of MS Office installed on machines

Question

I am working on a console application that performs some operation in the registry. I do not use any intermediate assembly for the office, but I need to know the office version. How to determine which version of MS Office is installed on a machine using C #.

Answer 1

Search in (using the Registry class)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Application Paths

or

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Application Paths

Version numbers

• 7.0 -97
• 8.0 - 98
• 9.0 -2000
• 10.0 -2002
• 11.0-2003
• 12.0 -2007
• 14.0 -2010

Here is a C # implementation

Answer 2

I had the same requirement, but I also need to find out if the office is set to 32-bit or 64-bit. I registered my solution here:

http://cyrilbeschi.blogspot.com/2014/03/how-to-find-microsoft-office-version.html