using a wll in office xp and 2003

[armadillo]

We have a .wll that worked very well in all versions of Word up to Office XP.
Beginning with Office XP it never works, because it's never checked in
Tools/Templates and Add-ins.
The wll is digitally signed and placed in "C:\Documents and
Settings\login-name\Application Data\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP".
It can't be used, even when Tools/Macro/Security is set to Low and we check
"Trust all installed add-ins".

We would be thankful for any way of getting it working in Word XP and with
Word 2003.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?YXJtYWRpbGxv?=,

Have you checked that the path you quote, below, is actually set as the STARTUP
folder path in Word? Check in Tools/Options/Folder locations.

We have a .wll that worked very well in all versions of Word up to Office XP.
Beginning with Office XP it never works, because it's never checked in
Tools/Templates and Add-ins.
The wll is digitally signed and placed in "C:\Documents and
Settings\login-name\Application Data\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP".
It can't be used, even when Tools/Macro/Security is set to Low and we check
"Trust all installed add-ins".

We would be thankful for any way of getting it working in Word XP and with
Word 2003.

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

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[armadillo]

Yes, the path is really:
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application
Data\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?YXJtYWRpbGxv?=,

Yes, the path is really:
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application
Data\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP

OK, well so much for the obvious...

I know there was a problem with the original release of
Word 2003, but since the first SP came out, a wll should
work with Word. And, as far as I know, the same problem
wasn't present for Word 2002...

If you activate the checkbox in Templates and addins does
it load?

Does a wll have to be registered (like a COM addin does)?
could it be that something in the Registry is keeping
addins from loading?

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

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