Find if Microsoft Office installed programmatically

Hi,
    Is there a way to find if Microsoft Office is installed on the computer programmatically? I need to generate different format of report depends on if Word and Excel is installed or not.
    Thanks!
    Regards,
   Tom
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Read the registry! http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3266675/how-to-detect-installed-version-of-ms-office
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Such a deal! Are you not absolutely thrilled?
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