Unwanted interference of Word addins

[Bernd Schend]

Hi all,

recently my customer installed two new COM addins, which seem
to slow down my own addin.

For instance, upon creating a new Word document my addin performs
numerous actions which in turn cause many change events. And all other
addins seem to react to these events. As a consequence,
document creation takes much more time and the screen starts flickering.

Is there a way to encapsulate my addin in some way, i.e. to 'hide'
change events?
(I read about SHIM. Is this a way to go?)

Thanks for your answers.
Best regards
Bernd