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ackmondual
Contributor
4 years ago

Options for DDT, 32-bit Excel 2016, with 64-bit TC v14

DDT = Data-Driven Testing I got that "the needed data source driver is not installed...." "... to read the data, install the 64-bit version of Microsoft Office 12.0 Acces database Engine OLE DB Pro...
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    AlexKaras
    4 years ago

    Hi,

     

    To add to what was said by ApplePen :

    -- TestComplete and Excel driver bitness must match. Bitness of Excel application is irrelevant and its presence is not required;

    -- TestComplete installation installs both x32 and x64 flavors of TestComplete during install - TC x32 is installed into <TestComplete>\Bin folder while TC x64 is installed into <TestComplete>\x64\Bin one. So you can use the flavor that best fits the needs of your project without the necessity to reinstall something.

     

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AlexKaras
Champion Level 3

Hi,

 

To add to what was said by ApplePen :

-- TestComplete and Excel driver bitness must match. Bitness of Excel application is irrelevant and its presence is not required;

-- TestComplete installation installs both x32 and x64 flavors of TestComplete during install - TC x32 is installed into <TestComplete>\Bin folder while TC x64 is installed into <TestComplete>\x64\Bin one. So you can use the flavor that best fits the needs of your project without the necessity to reinstall something.

 

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ackmondual
Contributor
4 years ago

Yeah, that worked!  I'm running off the executable from the /bin directory to use the 32-bit version of TC.  This instead of ....x64/bin.