XL97: Foreign Object Library Files (.olb) for Excel Available

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When to Distribute Microsoft Excel Object Library Files

If you create Visual Basic code in an international version (a version other than the English language version) of Microsoft Excel 5.0 or 7.0 and you want to distribute the Visual Basic application, include the packaged object library files with the application.

Note that the object library files are also necessary if you want to open an earlier version file even if the version is the same language version of Excel as the version you are using.

In Microsoft Excel 97, all Visual Basic projects are compiled in the English language. However, when you open a workbook that was created in an earlier version of Excel and the workbook contains macros that are written in any language except for English, you must install the appropriate foreign language object library.

If the code calls procedures written in multiple languages, include the object libraries for each of the languages. You should also include all workbooks and other object libraries that the application references.

Microsoft allows all registered owners of Microsoft Excel to distribute object libraries with their applications to other registered owners as necessary. In Microsoft Excel 97, the international object library files must be installed from the downloadable executable program files that are available in the Download Center. Each file is a self-extracting and self- installing program that includes both the Microsoft Excel 97 and Visual Basic for Applications object libraries.

The installation program registers the object libraries with Microsoft Windows. The names of the packaged object library files that are available from Microsoft are listed in the following table.

                 Packaged         Microsoft Excel       Visual Basic for
   Language      library file     for Windows .olb      Applications .olb
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   Brazilian     BrzOLBs.exe      Xl5ptb32.olb          Vbaptb32.olb
   Danish        DanOLBs.exe      Xl5da32.olb           Vbada32.olb
   Dutch         DutOLBs.exe      Xl5nl32.olb           Vbanl32.olb
   Finnish       FinOLBs.exe      Xl5fi32.olb           Vbafi32.olb
   French        FrnOLBs.exe      Xl5fr32.olb           Vbafr32.olb
   German        GerOLBs.exe      Xl5de32.olb           Vbade32.olb
   Italian       ItaOLBs.exe      Xl5it32.olb           Vbait32.olb
   Norwegian     NorOLBs.exe      Xl5no32.olb           Vbano32.olb
   Portuguese    PtgOLBs.exe      Xl5ptg32.olb          Vbaptg32.olb
   Spanish       SpaOLBs.exe      Xl5es32.olb           Vbaes32.olb
   Swedish       SweOLBs.exe      Xl5sv32.olb           Vbasv32.olb
				

NOTE: Although these .olb files use the same file names that .olb files for earlier versions of Microsoft Excel use, the files that are packaged for the Download Center are installed only in the Microsoft Excel 97 folder.