Word XP

[kevin.raway]

I recently upgraded from Office 97 to Office XP. Now every time I open Word
I get an error that reads: " The create Adobe PDF monitor cannot be found.
Please reinstall Adobe PDF."
I have done that and I still get the error when opening and closing Word.

Any thoughts?

Thank you.

Kevin

 

[TF]

There's probably a nasty Adobe add-in template in the Word Startup folder:
remove it.



"(e-mail address removed)"
:I recently upgraded from Office 97 to Office XP. Now every time I open
Word
: I get an error that reads: " The create Adobe PDF monitor cannot be found.
: Please reinstall Adobe PDF."
: I have done that and I still get the error when opening and closing Word.
:
: Any thoughts?
:
: Thank you.
:
: Kevin

 

[Lakeflake]

I have the same problem as described. I've gone to the startup folder and
delete the PDFWriter97.dot file, which then allows Word to open without error
messages, but the document still won't open within Word. If I leave the
PDFWriter97.dot in the startup I get two messages on Word startup -- "The
create Adobe PDF PDFWriter monitor cannot be found. Please reinstall Create
Adobe PDF". Also get "Create Adobe PDF monitor not found. Reinstall Create
Adobe PDF". The Office XP disk is virgin, original with KEY. Running on WIN
XP with all service packs, updates, etc. installed. Somehow the Create Adobe
PDF function is not working -- although it's a built in part of Office XP.
Help???

lakeflake

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Create Adobe PDF is *not* a built-in part of any version of Microsoft
Word/Office. But the PDFWriter97.dot add-in won't work with Word 2002, so
you need to remove it from the Word Startup folder and also from the Office
Startup folder if there's a copy there.

 

[Lakeflake]

Thanks for reply. If Create Adobe PDF is NOT a part of Office XP Pro I
wonder why it installs a link to it on the FILE tab? Specificly: Create
Adobe PDF, with sub menu to Print via PDFWriter? The install was a "Full"
install, not custom nor the "typical" first choice box. I'll keep looking
for solution to the problem...thanks.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

That's the way add-ins work: they add commands to Word's menus, buttons to
its toolbars, or new toolbars or menus of their own. The only way to get the
command off the menu permanently is to uninstall the add-in and then (if
that doesn't finish the job) open Customize and drag the command off the
menu.