Add references programmatically

Question

we have an Access-Application which does not work on some clients, mainly because references are broken. That happens for example when you start the access application with

Answer 1

So yeah, this answer is a bit late, but just in case someone stumbles across this like I did looking for an answer, I figured out the following bit of code to add an excel reference and it seems to work fine, also in MDE/ACCDE!

If Dir("C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\EXCEL.exe") <> "" And Not refExists("excel") Then
    Access.References.AddFromFile ("C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\EXCEL.exe")
End If
If Dir("C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.exe") <> "" And Not refExists("excel") Then
    Access.References.AddFromFile ("C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.exe")
End If
If Dir("C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\EXCEL.exe") = "" And Dir("C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.exe") = "" Then
    MsgBox ("ERROR: Excel not found")
End If

And the refExists references the following function:

Private Function refExists(naam As String)
Dim ref As Reference
refExists = False
For Each ref In References
    If ref.Name = naam Then
        refExists = True
    End If
Next
End Function