I had a quick look on the MS site but there doesn't seem to be an Office equivalent of winver.

If you just wanted to check basic details about the version of Office (e.g. 2000/XP/2003) I guess you could write a little batch script to check what folder is present in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office on the machine in question.

If it's Office 2002, there'll be an 'Office 10' folder, 2003 will be Office 11, etc.

However, if you want the full version number, I'm not so sure how you'd do that without going to Help->About. I guess it might be possible with a little visual basic script to interrogate the file version of winword.exe (or excel.exe, etc.) but I'm no good at visual basic I'm afraid

There is no one line command that will give you that info. Here are some suggestions for scripts:

Windows scripting host:


Windows Management Interface:


Specific version/service pack level:


Hope it helps....