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

Foreign language object library (.olb) files are available for Microsoft Excel 97 and Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications.

The following files are available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:
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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. 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.