Office® XP Development with VBA

Deploying Your Application

When it comes time to deploy your custom Office solution to your end users, you have numerous options. Which approach you will use depends on the details of your application and the scope of the deployment. You need to have a good understanding of the way Office applications and custom solutions work together in order to decide on the best method.

For example, your application may be contained in a Word template. In this case, deployment can consist merely of distributing the template file to your end users, or perhaps making it available on a network share.

Sometimes such a simple distribution method is not applicable. In this case, you can use the Package and Deployment Wizard to create a self-contained setup program ...