Menu item remained after the addin is removed

[mach]

I have built an addin for Word that adds one menu item to "Tools", the
strange thing is that everytime I launch Word, a new item will be added into
"Tools" and the old one remained in the menu. Even I removed my addin, the
custom items are still remained in the menu.
Anyone can help me on this?

 

[David Thielen]

You need to first walk through the menu looking to see if your old menu entry
is there and if so either reuse it or delete it, then add your new entry.
This is because an added entry is permanently added.

thanks - dave

 

[David]

I've been having a similar problem with my add-in.
I've tried deleting the CommandBarButton at OnStartShutdown() and even in
OnDisconnection(). However, either one gives me an unhandled COMException.
My guess is that menu items can't be changed at that point. If I make
changes, they do not persist when reloaded.
Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Mach,

I have built an addin for Word that adds one menu item to "Tools", the
strange thing is that everytime I launch Word, a new item will be added into
"Tools" and the old one remained in the menu. Even I removed my addin, the
custom items are still remained in the menu.

Do you specifically set the CustomizationContext when adding and when deleting
the item? If yes, to what are you setting it?

If not, try specifying it and see if that helps.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Javed]

Hi Cindy,
Could you please elaborate the setting of CustomizationContext for
preserving Menus. a little code hint will be helpfull.

Thanks,

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