Olevariant

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Property: The data type OleVariant is a variant data type that is used for OLE automation (automation of other programs).

Declaration of a data field of the data type OleVariant:

var
   varOle : OleVariant ;
Create an OleObject:
  begin
   ...
   varOle : = CreateOleObject ( 'Excel.Application' ) ;
   ...
 end ;
Release of a data field of the data type OleVariant: 
  begin
   ...
   varOle : = Unassigned ;
   ...
 end ;

You can find further examples for use on the topic of OleVariant under the topic of software automation.