Installing OAK

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A modern system running Excel 2007 and Windows Vista, or later versions of these most likely already has installed everything that OAK needs. However, the prerequisites are listed here for exceptional cases.

What you need to run OAK

OAK will run under

•	Windows XP

•	Windows Vista

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Windows 7

The operating system needs to have the following components installed:

•	version 2.0 of Microsoft's .NET framework

•	Excel 2007 or 2010 Primary Interop Assemblies (PIAs)

Microsoft Office patch KB907417 may be required for Excel 2003.

.NET 2.0 is installed by default with Windows Vista and 7, and is added to Windows XP by various service packs.

The PIAs are installed along with the relevant version of MS Office, unless:

•	the .NET Framework 1.1 or later was not present when Office was installed.

•	the .NET programmability option was specifically disabled in a customized installation.

No PIAs are required for Excel 2000 or 2002/XP. OAK interacts with those versions of Excel using a different mechanism.

The PIAs can be obtained from Microsoft from the following links:

Office 2010 Primary Interop Assemblies

Office 2007 Primary Interop Assemblies

Office 2003 Primary Interop Assemblies

OAK will run under

•	Excel 2000

•	Excel XP (effectively 2002)

•	Excel 2003

•	Excel 2007

•	Excel 2010 32 and 64-bit editions

Though there is a version of Excel for the Apple Macintosh, OAK is not designed to work with it.