Report Generation Toolkit on Vista and Office 2007

Hi,
I am trying to install Report Generation Toolkit 1.1.2 on LabVIEW 8.5 on a computer with Vista Business and Microsoft Office 2007.
The installation is starting, but I am receiving a message saying that "Microsoft Office 2000 or later is not detected on the computer"
The installation stops and the toolkit is not installed.
What can I do ?
Tom

Tom SAVU wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to install Report Generation Toolkit 1.1.2 on LabVIEW 8.5 on a computer with Vista Business and Microsoft Office 2007.
The installation is starting, but I am receiving a message saying that "Microsoft Office 2000 or later is not detected on the computer"
The installation stops and the toolkit is not installed.
What can I do ?
Tom
The Report Generation Toolkit does probably not support Office 2007 yet. This is because the Office ActiveX interface used to change with each version and the Report Generation Toolkit comes with specific libraries for each of the Office versions it supports. With the wrong office version the Report Generation Toolkit VIs are normally broken and can't run without some more or less involved modifications.
Rolf Kalbermatter
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CIT Engineering Netherlands
a division of Test & Measurement Solutions

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