Adobe Acrobat 5.5 & Excel 2000

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Picsou

Hello,

I have installed Adobe Acrobat (not the reader) on my machine on which
Office2000 was already installed.
The installation of Acrobat added 2 Acrobat buttons in the toolbars Word &
PowerPoint.
It should have added the same 2 buttons in Excel, but it didn't.
Can somebody explain what I should do to get them in place please ?

Thanks
 
Did you try Tools|AddIns and check the PDF box?
Not there - do a Start|Search/Find to locate folder; go back to Tools|AddIns
and Add using Browse to go to correct folder.
Have you tried View|Toolbars and clicked on PDF?
I also have a menu item named Adobe PDF (using Excel 2003; Acrobat 6)
 
Thanks for your answer Bernard.
The problem is that I have none of the things that you suggested me to
verify.
 
Picsou

Do a file search for *.XLA on your computer. Make sure your settings are
"unhide all file extensions".

You should find a PDF.XLA or similar. Note its location then, as Bernie
suggests, in Excel Tools>Add-ins browse to that location and select the *.XLA
file.

You could try re-registering Excel.

Start>Run "excel.exe /unregserver"(no quotes and note the space before the /
mark).

Then re-register by Start>Run "excel.exe /regserver

You may have to enter your full path to excel.exe....in that case surround
with quotes as in..... "C:\mypath\to Excel\somewhere\excel.exe" /unregserver

I have never used Office 2000 but Office 2002 has a "Repair Office".

Start>Settings>Control Panel>Add/Remove. Select Office 2000 and "Change".
Select the "Repair Office" and run that.

Gord Dibben Excel MVP
 
Hello Gord and Bernie,

Everything is fine again now.
Thank you both so much for very quick help and answers to my call for help.
I am impressed !

Thanks again
 
Picsou

Curious. Which of the several suggestions(or none) got you up and running?

Just so's the Group has a reference for a fix if this problem crops up again.

Thanks for the feedback. Gord
 
Hi Gord & Bernard,

I'd love to share my findings, it is the least I can do in return for your
help.

Since I did not find what you were referring to in the Add-Ins etc, I
started a search for PDF.XLA that one of you mentioned (without success).
I thought that it might have to do with PDF & XLA, so I started a search for
PDF*.XLA and bingo I got several PDFmaker.XLA files.

The next step was to compare if I had these files, in the same folders (or
more folders) on another machine that shows me the buttons just fine.

Another bingo : there was one instance more on the eroneous machine, namely
in :
C:\Documents and settings\myname\application data\microsoft\excel
I deleted that file

And the final bingo was that I got my PDF-maker buttons back.

This is all very strange to me:
- I do not know (yet) how that XLA-file got there
- I do not understand (yet) how it was able to create that problem.

All I can say (for the time being) is that both of you have put me on a
successful search-track that finally solved my problem.
Thanks again guys.



Gord Dibben said:
Picsou

Curious. Which of the several suggestions(or none) got you up and running?

Just so's the Group has a reference for a fix if this problem crops up again.

Thanks for the feedback. Gord

Hello Gord and Bernie,

Everything is fine again now.
Thank you both so much for very quick help and answers to my call for help.
I am impressed !

Thanks again


Gord Dibben said:
Picsou

Do a file search for *.XLA on your computer. Make sure your settings are
"unhide all file extensions".

You should find a PDF.XLA or similar. Note its location then, as Bernie
suggests, in Excel Tools>Add-ins browse to that location and select the *.XLA
file.

You could try re-registering Excel.

Start>Run "excel.exe /unregserver"(no quotes and note the space before
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the
/
mark).

Then re-register by Start>Run "excel.exe /regserver

You may have to enter your full path to excel.exe....in that case surround
with quotes as in..... "C:\mypath\to Excel\somewhere\excel.exe" /unregserver

I have never used Office 2000 but Office 2002 has a "Repair Office".

Start>Settings>Control Panel>Add/Remove. Select Office 2000 and "Change".
Select the "Repair Office" and run that.

Gord Dibben Excel MVP
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Picsou

Great detective work. Some of these third-party add-ins are not placed in the
normal spots, like Office\Library and are hard to find.

Thanks again for feedback.

Gord

Hi Gord & Bernard,

I'd love to share my findings, it is the least I can do in return for your
help.

Since I did not find what you were referring to in the Add-Ins etc, I
started a search for PDF.XLA that one of you mentioned (without success).
I thought that it might have to do with PDF & XLA, so I started a search for
PDF*.XLA and bingo I got several PDFmaker.XLA files.

The next step was to compare if I had these files, in the same folders (or
more folders) on another machine that shows me the buttons just fine.

Another bingo : there was one instance more on the eroneous machine, namely
in :
C:\Documents and settings\myname\application data\microsoft\excel
I deleted that file

And the final bingo was that I got my PDF-maker buttons back.

This is all very strange to me:
- I do not know (yet) how that XLA-file got there
- I do not understand (yet) how it was able to create that problem.

All I can say (for the time being) is that both of you have put me on a
successful search-track that finally solved my problem.
Thanks again guys.



Gord Dibben said:
Picsou

Curious. Which of the several suggestions(or none) got you up and running?

Just so's the Group has a reference for a fix if this problem crops up again.

Thanks for the feedback. Gord
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My pleasure.
After all, it was thanks to both of your inputs that I got to the final
solution.

I am experimenting an awful lot with user-oriented things with respect to
MS-software (WinXP, Office, Visio, etc, etc) and I am frustrated by the fact
that I have never been accepted in whatsoever beta-testing.
I have an enormeous computer-skil since Win98, I have a very high degree of
decision-making in a "very large account" for MS in the company I work with.
That is why I can simply not understand why MS ignores me completely since
ever.

Until now I have bought MS stuff personally just for the fun of testing -
this is becoming much too expensive for me, since I am not payd by anyone
for this.

Do you know by any chance who could help me being integrated in business
oriented beta testing solutions like Windows, Office, Visio, Project ....
etc ?

Under the increasing pressure of open source (in which I do not see an
immediate solution) by our very "devided management", I need help :
- I want to continue using Windows & Office by all means : please help
- I do want to introduce business opportunity accelerators like Visio and
the alike
- I am all in for networking solutions because ours is working really bad,
and people tend to say that it is a microsoft short-coming once more.
But I cannot continue paying for MS-evaluation-versions during my
after-office hours the way I did today.

Sorry for this cry for help.
I simply do not see us all working on Linux (or should I say Lindows)
tomorrow.




Gord Dibben said:
Picsou

Great detective work. Some of these third-party add-ins are not placed in the
normal spots, like Office\Library and are hard to find.

Thanks again for feedback.

Gord

Hi Gord & Bernard,

I'd love to share my findings, it is the least I can do in return for your
help.

Since I did not find what you were referring to in the Add-Ins etc, I
started a search for PDF.XLA that one of you mentioned (without success).
I thought that it might have to do with PDF & XLA, so I started a search for
PDF*.XLA and bingo I got several PDFmaker.XLA files.

The next step was to compare if I had these files, in the same folders (or
more folders) on another machine that shows me the buttons just fine.

Another bingo : there was one instance more on the eroneous machine, namely
in :
C:\Documents and settings\myname\application data\microsoft\excel
I deleted that file

And the final bingo was that I got my PDF-maker buttons back.

This is all very strange to me:
- I do not know (yet) how that XLA-file got there
- I do not understand (yet) how it was able to create that problem.

All I can say (for the time being) is that both of you have put me on a
successful search-track that finally solved my problem.
Thanks again guys.



Gord Dibben said:
Picsou

Curious. Which of the several suggestions(or none) got you up and running?

Just so's the Group has a reference for a fix if this problem crops up again.

Thanks for the feedback. Gord

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