Thanks for the advice, I just about managed to follow it all! (maybe one day i'll increase from newbie status!) The version of office I am using is 2000, so I can't go down the PIA route. I think i'll create an installer for the app as I don't have direct access to the machine, it's an end user performing the install.
Yeah! What Mark said. :) What a piece of work is man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable . . . and yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust? -- Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii.