You receive an unexpected result when you compare the results of the "Application.Version" property to another string value in Excel

When you compare the results of the Application.Version property to another string value in Microsoft Excel, you receive an unexpected result.

For example, if you compare the results of the Application.Version property in Microsoft Excel 2002 to the number of an earlier version, such as "7.0," your code returns FALSE, as if Excel 2002 were not a later version than Microsoft Excel 7.0.

Application.Version returns a String value instead of a numeric data type. Because the Excel 2002 version string is "10.0," the following line of code evaluates to FALSE: In a string comparison, "10.0" is less than "7.0."

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