Start of Word does not fire AutoExec-macro

[Bo Hansson]

My Word 2003 VBA-application (in XP-environment) is dependent on an
autoexec-macro, supposed to be fired when Word starts.
My code is contained in Words startup directory and it works as expected on
all computers but one.

Any ideas why this beast does not execute the autoexec-procedure?

/BosseH

 

[Helmut Weber]

Hi Bo,

is Word the Outlook editor there?
Even activating the spell-checker in Outlook
might be enough, as this creates an instance of word.

To the best of my knowledge.

Greetings from Bavaria, Germany

Helmut Weber, MVP
"red.sys" & chr(64) & "t-online.de"
Word XP, Win 98
http://word.mvps.org/

 

[Bo Hansson]

Thanks Helmut,

You are probably right.
Any ideas how to handle cases like that?

/BosseH

 

[Jonathan West]

Thanks Helmut,

You are probably right.
Any ideas how to handle cases like that?

There is no way to force Autoexec to run in such cases. Therefore, you have
to work around the porblem, for instance having the Autotext code run the
first time the user clicks any button on the add-in's toolbars