That's a great answer, thanks.
We'll have to review our code and likely end up doing some testing; we both
read in and parse existing documents (i.e., using Excel from 3rd parties as
input; btw, rarely a good idea ;) and creating output files for various
reporting and output issues. Knowing the basic answer ("You must have the
applications installed locally") will be a big help.
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Chris Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> You shouldn't have any issues.
>
> Office 365 is not a direct replacement for Office installations.
>
> Office 2010 onwards can work with an Office 365 subscription, i.e. connect
> to your inbox. I believe Office 2010 needs to have the latest service pack.
>
> Some Office365 subscriptions include a licence for the desktop products,
> some don't.
>
> Look at Office 365 more as a Hosted Exchange account + One Drive.
>
> If your client still has the desktop applications if they already owned
> them (2010 onwards) or if they have downloaded and installed the latest
> versions via their Office 365 subscription then any automation you are
> doing on the local machine will continue to work.
>
> Office 365 adds extra web based accessibility to your office files with
> the browser based versions of Word, Excel, Outlook etc. assuming your files
> are in your One Drive. The browser based version do not offer the full
> functionality of the desktop applications.
>
> This isn't the full story but the answer to your question should be a
> simple, if the applications are still installed locally then your
> automation should continue without issue. Unless you have any version
> specific issues such as your customer gets Outlook 2013 desktop application
> as part of their subscription replacing their old Outlook 2007 applications
> for example and your code doesn't work with Outlook 2013.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> This information is correct to the best of my knowledge and gained from
> experience migrating one of our customers from Office 2007 to a Office 365
> subscription which included access to all the Office 2013 desktop
> applications.
>
> Thanks
>
> Chris.
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ted
> Roche
> Sent: 16 October 2014 22:35
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Office 365 and Office Automation?
>
> Anyone had their clients "upgrade" to Office 365?
>
> Client with extensive Office Automation from Fox into Word and Excel.
>
> Anyone run into issues?
>
>
> --
> Ted Roche
> Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
> http://www.tedroche.com
>
>
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