Determine installed Microsoft Excel version using Apache POI

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Published on 2010-04-29T14:45:49Z Indexed on 2010/04/29 14:57 UTC
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Good Day,

I need to determine which version of Microsoft Excel is installed on a Windows PC. I'm working with Apache POI but can't figure out an easy way to do this.

Anyone know if Apache POI has a built in functionality to do this? Any ideas how to do this using Java code?

Thanks in advance.

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