{Sturgeon’s Law} “Sure, 90% of all software is crap. That’s because 90% of everything is crap.” [Mary Shaw, Carnegie-Mellon University]

Abstract

Microsoft hat in seiner unendlichen Weisheit beschlossen, ab Excel 2016 den Wert von Application.Version nicht über 16 hinaus zu erhöhen.

Meine Funktion ApplicationVersion behebt dies und gibt einen verständlichen Versionsstring zurück.

Appendix – Programmcode ApplicationVersion

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Option Explicit

Function ApplicationVersion(Optional bShowBuild365 As Boolean = True) As String
'Returns MS Excel's version - with a little kludge
'Source (EN): http://www.sulprobil.com/applicationversion_en/
'Source (DE): http://www.bplumhoff.de/applicationversion_de/
'(C) (P) by Bernd Plumhoff 23-Feb-2024 PB V0.6
Dim n As Integer
With Application
n = Val(.Version)
Select Case n
Case 16
  ApplicationVersion = "Excel 2016"
  On Error Resume Next 'We know what we are doing
  'Excel 365 introduced ValueToText
  n = Val(.ValueToText(19))
  If n = 19 Then
    If bShowBuild365 Then
      'When all of them are 365 you might want to know the build.
      ApplicationVersion = "Excel 365 (Build " & .Build & ")"
    Else
      ApplicationVersion = "Excel 365"
    End If
  Else
    'Excel 2021 introduced RandArray
    n = .RandArray(1, 1, 18, 18, True)(1)
    If n = 18 Then
      ApplicationVersion = "Excel 2021"
    Else
      'Excel 2019 introduced TextJoin
      n = Val(.TextJoin(" ", True, "17"))
      If n = 17 Then ApplicationVersion = "Excel 2019"
    End If
  End If
  On Error GoTo 0
Case 15
  ApplicationVersion = "Excel 2013"
Case 14
  ApplicationVersion = "Excel 2010"
Case 12
  ApplicationVersion = "Excel 2007"
Case 11
  ApplicationVersion = "Excel 2003"
Case 10
  ApplicationVersion = "Excel 2002"
Case 9
  ApplicationVersion = "Excel 2000"
Case 8
  ApplicationVersion = "Excel 97"
Case 7
  ApplicationVersion = "Excel 7/95"
Case 5
  ApplicationVersion = "Excel 5"
Case Else
  ApplicationVersion = "[Error]"
End Select
End With
End Function

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ApplicationVersion.xlsm [17 KB Excel Datei, ohne jegliche Gewährleistung]