How do I install add ins in Word 2007?

Types of add-ins installed in your Word can absolutely lead to higher efficiency and productivity. However, at the very same moment, too many add-ins will slow your Word processing. What’s worse, they can even make Word documents unable to open.

This can be frustrating enough. So, it’s quite necessary to learn tips to enable or disable all these add-ins on your own. Following are two ways to get your task done.

Method 1: Enable or Disable Add-ins According to Your Specific Need

1. First and foremost, open your Word.
2. Click “File”.
3. Then click “Options” on the menu.
   
4. In the “Word Options” window popped out, first click “Add-Ins” on the left side.
5. Next thing, choose “COM Add-Ins” on the drop-down list of “Manage”.
6. Click the “Go” button right next to “Manage”.
   
7. Now you can see the “COM Add-Ins” window. Look through the one or more options in “Add-Ins available” list box. And check what you need or stop ones you don’t.
8. When finish this, you are fine to click the “OK” button on the right.
   
9. Last but not the least, close your Word and restart it.

As a result, you will find your Word operates faster. Certainly, there is another way which can save you much labor by disabling all add-ins at once. Please continue to read the second method.

Method 2: Stop All Add-ins Once for All

1. Follow the exact first three steps in method 1.
2. Only this time, you should choose “Trust Center” in “Word Options” window.
3. Next click “Trust Center Settings”.
   
4. In “Trust Center” window, click “Add-ins”.
5. Among all the options below “Add-ins”, please check “Disable all Application Add-ins”.
6. Click “OK” button.
   
7. Now back to the “Word Options” window, and don’t forget to click “OK”.
8. Repeat the last move in method 1.

Above 2 tips means a great deal to speed up your Word. Meanwhile, you will be able to make yourself a more efficient guy so as to save much precious time.

How to Deal with Corrupted Word Documents

Although add-ins can be a huge influence to Word speed, they are not always the ones to blame when you cannot open a file. Sometimes it’s because your document has got corrupted. Therefore, you are going to need word recovery.

Speaking of recovering files, making good use of the built-in function of Word is always your first option. If you are lucky enough, you are sure to get your document back. Still, it can fail to meet your need sometimes. Then you can resort to some third-party tools to recover your file.

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In fact the Add-Ins command is not on the Ribbon of Microsoft Excel 2007 and 2010. You will find this command if you follow these steps:

• Click the Office Button in Microsoft Excel 2007, and click the File tab in Excel 2010/2013;
• Click the (Excel) Options button;
• Then you will enter into the Excel Options window, go on to click the Add-Ins button. Now you can easily view and manage all Add-ins in Excel.

Figure 2: Seek Add-Ins from Ribbon

More Tips for Microsoft Excel 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 and 365

Classic Menu for Office

Brings the familiar classic menus and toolbars back to Microsoft Office 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 and 365. You can use Office 2007/2010/2013/2016 immediately without any training. Supports all languages, and all new commands of 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 and 365 have been added into the classic interface.

Classic Menu for Office

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(Helper Files/Programs That Sometimes Cause Problem)

This page last revised: 03 Nov 2022 09:04:36 -0500 .

People are often directed to this page because:

1.  They are receiving a query about whether they want to save changes to the attached template (the normal template). The converse of this also happens where they try to save changes to the normal template and are prevented from doing so (without notice). Such changes are things like modification of styles, recorded macros, and saved AutoText or AutoCorrect.

2. Something problematic is happening that does not happen when Word is started in Safe Mode.

These problems are usually symptoms of a poorly-written Add-In for Word. (If in a corporate network, the problems can also be caused by group polices or automatic rewriting of the normal template. This is becoming rare as IT professionals learn of those problems.)

Background

Microsoft Word, at least since Word 97, has allowed third parties, including users, to change the program's interface with the user by adding menus, toolbars, ribbons, macros, keyboard shortcuts, and other building blocks or components. In Word 97 this was done only by using Global Templates  loaded as Add-ins, usually by placing them in Word's Startup Folder. These are Word template files, created and editable in Word. (Templates stored in the OFFICE startup folder will also be loaded as Add-Ins.) Beginning with Word 2000 another kind of Add-In was allowed, a .COM Add-In. These are programs.

With the introduction of COM Add-Ins, though, came problems. The easiest way to make changes to the Word user interface seems to be to change that interface in the normal template. There can be multiple problems that arise when you do that. These include an alert to the user when leaving the program that changes have been made to the template and asking if those should be saved, the inability of the user to save changes to defaults, and (much more rarely) repeated additions of controls or buttons to the interface (one added each time Word is started).

Add-Ins that do this are poorly-written. There are other ways to make the changes when the Add-In is loaded that do not trigger the alert or block the user from making their own changes. Add-Ins that cause these problems sometimes are installed as a part of the initial setup of a computer. They sometimes come with very good, useful, expensive commercial programs. As a diagnostic, you can start Word with no Add-ins running using a command-line switch.

The Alert to Save Changes to the Normal Template Should Be Switched "ON"

Word has an option to alert the user if changes are about to be saved to the normal template upon exiting Word. This option should be kept on. Recent versions of Word install with this turned "off." You want it turned on. The normal template is a key component of Word. You do not want changes made to it unless you approve them. I suspect it was turned off as a part of installation because of the number of calls to Microsoft and to corporate IT departments caused by poorly-written Add-Ins triggering the alert.

In ribbon versions of Word, this setting is in the Word Options - Advanced.

The Word 97-2003 dialog appears below. Tools > Options > Save

I tell people this is Word's equivalent to the smoke alarm. If it keeps buzzing, something is wrong that needs fixing. The solution to the problem is not taking the battery out of the smoke alarm, or switching off this alert.

Short-term Work-Arounds for Change Default Problems Caused by Poorly-Written Add-Ins

These are called "short-term work-arounds" because they don't fix the problem but they let you get your work done until you can take the time to fix the problem.

Unable to save changes to defaults, changes to the normal template

You can open the normal template directly, make your changes there, and save. This will almost always defeat the blocking done by Add-Ins.

Normal Template in Microsoft Word - How to Find or Open the Normal Template

Note: You do not open the normal template (or any template in Word) by double-clicking on it.

Note: In Ribbon versions of Word you may want to be Changing Style Defaults in the Manage Styles dialog.

One solution to these problems is to start Word without loading Add-Ins. This is done through the command-line switch /a. Doing this is a useful diagnostic tool; it lets you pin down that an Add-In is the source of your problem. It is not how you want to run Word, though. Add-Ins can be very helpful in using Word or in using Word with other programs such as Adobe Acrobat. They can make your life easier. Here is a link to some of the free template Add-Ins I've developed. I use a number developed by others as well.

To start Word without loading Add-Ins you use the following command in the Run Window under the Start Menu:

winword.exe /a (note the space before /a)

In Windows XP and later, you can get to the Run window by pressing the Windows key with the letter R.

(In Windows 8 or later, the run command can be found among the Windows Apps between Help and Task Manager. You can also use the search bar and click on the result that shows up. - See below.

If you have multiple versions of Word installed on your computer and this launches the wrong version, you will have to find the actual path to the winword.exe file that runs the version you want. Word 2016 should be in the folder labeled Office16. Word 2013 should be in a folder labeled Office15. Word 2010 should be in a folder labeled Office14. Word 2007 will be in a folder labeled Office12. Word 2003 will be in a folder labeled Office11. Word 97 will be in a folder labeled Office.

Annoying Message about Saving Changes to the Normal Template

Again, you do not want to turn off the alert.

Solving an Add-In Problem - the Long-Term Method

First, to make sure that it is an Add-In causing the problem, use the command-line switch to start Word without Add-Ins. To get to the command-line or run box use the Windows button with R, then type the following and press enter. (Don't type the stuff in parentheses!)

winword.exe /a (note the space before /a)

If the problem is an Add/in then you need to find and disable the particular Add-In causing the problem. If an Add-In is causing a problem the solution is to go through them one by one. Start by disabling the most recently added ones or ones that you do not know what they do for you. Here is link to Microsoft pages on controlling Add-Ins. I would focus on COM add-ins first.

If with those Add-Ins disabled, you do not have the problem, turn them on, one-by-one, until the problem reappears. Then you have to ask: Does what this Add-In does for me outweigh the problems it is causing? Regardless of your answer, write to the creator of your problem. Tell them how many hours of frustration you've had. Ask them to fix it.

It is possible that two Add-Ins working in tandem can cause problems that neither causes on its own. I have not encountered this situation but remain open to the possibility.

In Ribbon versions of Word, Add-Ins can be controlled in Options or by using the Developer Tab. Here is a portion of that tab shown in Word 2019. The buttons look a bit different in earlier versions. Chances are that you will have nowhere near the number of Add-Ins shown below.

In earlier versions without the Ribbon (Word 2000-2003) COM Add-Ins are reached by adding a command. You can get directions for doing this in Help by searching for "com add-in."

How do I install an add in in Word 2007?

Click File > Options > Add-Ins. Select an add-in type. Click Go.

How do I install an add in in Word?

If you're using Word, Excel or PowerPoint, press Insert > My Add-ins. In the Add-ins for Office box, find your add-in. If you don't see it, verify that you're signed into Office.

Why can't I see add

Refresh the Office Add-ins list. If an Office add-in isn't showing up in the Office Add-ins list, refresh the list to see all of your add-ins. In Word 2016, Excel 2016, or PowerPoint 2016 click Insert > My Add-ins. In Project 2016, click Project > My Add-ins.