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How to check office version from command line


The are quite a few ways to check office version it can be done via registry, PowerShell or VBScript and of course, good old command line can also do it.
Checking Windows office version whether it is Office 2010, Office, 2013, Office 2016 or other version is quite important to check compatibility of documents; or just a part of software inventory.

For PowerShell this simple snippet can check the office version:

$ol = New-Object -ComObject Excel.Application
$ol.Version

The command line option will tell you where’s the path located; the result will also tell whether office is 32-bit, 64-bit and of course the version of the office as well.

Here’s the command that will check the office version and which program directory the file is located which will tell whether it’s 32-bit or 64-bit.

Command to search for Excel.exe:

DIR C:\ /s excel.exe | find  /i "Directory of" 

Above command assumes that program files is on  C: drive.

Sample Output, if 64-bit version:

Directory of C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office16

If 32-bit version:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office16


C:\Program Files (x86 \ this is the path where all 32-bit application is installed.

To check the version, the path itself where “excel.exe” is found will tell the version of the office.

In this case, the version is Office 16 or Office 2016 or Office 2019.

Here’s an image from Wikipedia, that list the version number and its equivalent name.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel



The command line can be written to a batch file and save to a common drive so it can be used for remote computers or in a domain environment, the hostname of the computer must be collected in order to identify the output data to which computer it came from.

Here's the revised command line that can be saved on a batch file and run against remote computers using group policy, startup script, log off or log on script and other methods for remote execution.

@echo off

 echo %COMPUTERNAME% > \\remote\share\location\%COMPUTERNAME%.txt

 cd c:\

 dir  /s excel.exe | find  /i "Directory of" >>\\remote\share\location\%COMPUTERNAME%.txt

 echo "Data gathered from this PC:" %COMPUTERNAME% >> \\remote\share\location\%COMPUTERNAME%.txt


That's it a simple command line to check remote PCs for office version.

A simple way to check application architecture, basically any application in C:\Program Files (x86)\ is 32 bit and in C:\Program Files\ is 64 bit.

Dir /x shows the shortcut format of these two directories, example:

            PROGRA~1     Program Files
            PROGRA~2     Program Files (x86)


Useful in batch file or PowerShell scripting to get rid of white spaces, which causes issues sometimes.


Cheers..till next time. :)

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