Friday, November 03, 2006

word/excel error caused by acrobat

Platform: XP, Office 2003

Error: When opening new docs, these errors appear after installing adobe acrobat

"Compile error in hidden module: AutoExecNew" and
"Compile error in hidden module" AotoExec" and
"Compile error in hidden module" DistMon"

 

Fix: Remove the pdf startup template file ;

 

The Pdfmaker.dot file is located in one of the following folders:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Startup (Word 2000)

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\Startup (Word 2002)

C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Application Data\Microsoft\Word\Startup


The Pdfmaker.xla file in located in one of the following folders:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Xlstart (Excel 2000)

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\Xlstart (Excel 2002)

C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel\Xlstart

 

url: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307410

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