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Disabled add-ins
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We have recently upgraded to XL2002, and although it has gone well, there are a few issues we have come across; the following one we haven't been able to get around : We have a few "checked" (Tools|add-ins) add-ins which reference other add-ins (which aren't "checked"). We have seen cases where, eg, if excel crashes whilst opening, one of the add-ins will be placed in the "disabled" basket (Help|About|Disabled Items). As a result of this the user gets a host of compile errors on opening Excel because not all the add-ins are being loaded. It doesn't matter whether the add-in which was quarantined was an installed one or not (if it was an installed one, Excel still refuses to load it) Now it seems the only way to force Excel to load this "bad" add-in is to open it manually, and after a warning saying last time it opened it caused a catastrophic failure, it opens happily. Unfortunately, our users are not very familiar with Excel, and are scattered around the world. We manage their add-ins through scripts which populate the "Office\10.0\Excel\Options" path in the registry to install their add-ins. You can see our problem in that even though the disabled add-in is in this folder, it still won't be loaded. I can see the disbaled add-in is in the "Resiiency\DisabledItems" folder in the registry, but the name is encoded. We could delete all items in there as part of our script, but is there a more localised solution? Thanks Rog |
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You may want to go back to the root cause.
I think I'd delete those addins from my harddrive, remove them from the disabled list, and reinstall them (either from the Office distribution CD or from whatever source you have). Maybe something bad happened to that/those addins???? Rog wrote: Hi All We have recently upgraded to XL2002, and although it has gone well, there are a few issues we have come across; the following one we haven't been able to get around : We have a few "checked" (Tools|add-ins) add-ins which reference other add-ins (which aren't "checked"). We have seen cases where, eg, if excel crashes whilst opening, one of the add-ins will be placed in the "disabled" basket (Help|About|Disabled Items). As a result of this the user gets a host of compile errors on opening Excel because not all the add-ins are being loaded. It doesn't matter whether the add-in which was quarantined was an installed one or not (if it was an installed one, Excel still refuses to load it) Now it seems the only way to force Excel to load this "bad" add-in is to open it manually, and after a warning saying last time it opened it caused a catastrophic failure, it opens happily. Unfortunately, our users are not very familiar with Excel, and are scattered around the world. We manage their add-ins through scripts which populate the "Office\10.0\Excel\Options" path in the registry to install their add-ins. You can see our problem in that even though the disabled add-in is in this folder, it still won't be loaded. I can see the disbaled add-in is in the "Resiiency\DisabledItems" folder in the registry, but the name is encoded. We could delete all items in there as part of our script, but is there a more localised solution? Thanks Rog -- Dave Peterson |
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Hi Dave, thanks for your reply.
The add-ins are ones that we have created, and they reside on a server. There is nothing wrong with the add-ins themselves, but sometimes, for whatever reason, Excel is interrupted/crashes on loading, and then subsequently thinks it was a problem with our add-ins and refuses to load them. They are then placed in this "disabled add-ins" basket, in an encoded form. Any more ideas? "Dave Peterson" wrote: You may want to go back to the root cause. I think I'd delete those addins from my harddrive, remove them from the disabled list, and reinstall them (either from the Office distribution CD or from whatever source you have). Maybe something bad happened to that/those addins???? Rog wrote: Hi All We have recently upgraded to XL2002, and although it has gone well, there are a few issues we have come across; the following one we haven't been able to get around : We have a few "checked" (Tools|add-ins) add-ins which reference other add-ins (which aren't "checked"). We have seen cases where, eg, if excel crashes whilst opening, one of the add-ins will be placed in the "disabled" basket (Help|About|Disabled Items). As a result of this the user gets a host of compile errors on opening Excel because not all the add-ins are being loaded. It doesn't matter whether the add-in which was quarantined was an installed one or not (if it was an installed one, Excel still refuses to load it) Now it seems the only way to force Excel to load this "bad" add-in is to open it manually, and after a warning saying last time it opened it caused a catastrophic failure, it opens happily. Unfortunately, our users are not very familiar with Excel, and are scattered around the world. We manage their add-ins through scripts which populate the "Office\10.0\Excel\Options" path in the registry to install their add-ins. You can see our problem in that even though the disabled add-in is in this folder, it still won't be loaded. I can see the disbaled add-in is in the "Resiiency\DisabledItems" folder in the registry, but the name is encoded. We could delete all items in there as part of our script, but is there a more localised solution? Thanks Rog -- Dave Peterson |
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If excel thinks that there's something wrong, then either there is (in excel's
eyes) or excel is messed up. Maybe trying to fix excel (help|detect and repair or reinstalling) would help. But I'd still refresh those addins from a clean source. (I got nothin' else.) Rog wrote: Hi Dave, thanks for your reply. The add-ins are ones that we have created, and they reside on a server. There is nothing wrong with the add-ins themselves, but sometimes, for whatever reason, Excel is interrupted/crashes on loading, and then subsequently thinks it was a problem with our add-ins and refuses to load them. They are then placed in this "disabled add-ins" basket, in an encoded form. Any more ideas? "Dave Peterson" wrote: You may want to go back to the root cause. I think I'd delete those addins from my harddrive, remove them from the disabled list, and reinstall them (either from the Office distribution CD or from whatever source you have). Maybe something bad happened to that/those addins???? Rog wrote: Hi All We have recently upgraded to XL2002, and although it has gone well, there are a few issues we have come across; the following one we haven't been able to get around : We have a few "checked" (Tools|add-ins) add-ins which reference other add-ins (which aren't "checked"). We have seen cases where, eg, if excel crashes whilst opening, one of the add-ins will be placed in the "disabled" basket (Help|About|Disabled Items). As a result of this the user gets a host of compile errors on opening Excel because not all the add-ins are being loaded. It doesn't matter whether the add-in which was quarantined was an installed one or not (if it was an installed one, Excel still refuses to load it) Now it seems the only way to force Excel to load this "bad" add-in is to open it manually, and after a warning saying last time it opened it caused a catastrophic failure, it opens happily. Unfortunately, our users are not very familiar with Excel, and are scattered around the world. We manage their add-ins through scripts which populate the "Office\10.0\Excel\Options" path in the registry to install their add-ins. You can see our problem in that even though the disabled add-in is in this folder, it still won't be loaded. I can see the disbaled add-in is in the "Resiiency\DisabledItems" folder in the registry, but the name is encoded. We could delete all items in there as part of our script, but is there a more localised solution? Thanks Rog -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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