Dealing with annoying add-in changing Normal?

[Ed from AZ]

This is about my work computer - XP Pro, Office 2003. The corporate
mandate includes an add-in for Word. It's in the Admin-level Default
Users folders, and I can't get to it. I deleted it from my user-level
start up folder, but it's back again - I guess it checks and if
missing replicates itself into every user level start folder.

I don't use it and likely never will. It puts toolbars up which I
kill with an Document_Open macro in the ThisDocument module of
Normal. I end the macro with Me.Saved = True, but I still get the
"Saving Normal.dot" message every time I close Word. I unchecked the
warning in Tools >> Options just to get rid of that box every time I
close the app!

Is there any relief for this? Is there a way to either stop this
thing from loading or unload it and tell Word it's okay? Or even just
tell Word immediately after loading that it's fine and clean,
regardless of what this thing does?

Ed

 

[Graham Mayor]

Normally add-ins shouldn't affect normal.dot, but not all are well behaved.

What I would try first is to open normal.dot, turn off the toolbars that the
add-in produces, type a character into the text space, delete it then save
and close normal.dot.

Some corporate systems replace normal.dot by a log-in script so this respite
(if any) would be short lived.

If you have the required permission, you could change your local startup
folder through tools > options > file locations > to a location on your PC.
This might fool the addin or script to continue to place it in the old
folder, much depends on how it is set up, but you stand the chance of
invoking corporate wrath. Your better choice is to chat with your IT support
and get the add-in removed from your log-in.

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[Ed from AZ]

Thanks for the help, Graham. I tried changing folders, but
unfortunately it didn't work! I guess I just get to deal with this!

Ed