When will Microsoft fix the Mac Office CreateObject problem

Question

When you try to use Mac Word VBA to automate Excel, there is a problem because when you use

Dim xapp As Object
Set xapp = CreateObject(-Excel.Application-)

*NB, I had to use a - instead of a double quotation mark because your web interface rejected double quotation marks.

if xapp is returned at all, it actually returns an Excel.Workbook object.

So it is possible to work around that, but what I would like to know is when is Microsoft going to fix the problem, or document a solution if that is what is required.

Answer 1

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