Description
The Foxit Creator Add-in disappeared from Microsoft office toolbar frequently that I need to enable Foxit Add-in on the office toolbar by doing steps in this article every time when the Foxit Add-in lost.How to prevent the Foxit creator Add-in from being lost again?
Solution
To make the Foxit creator add-in loading automatically on Microsoft office toolbar permanently, do the following (Taking Microsoft Word as an example):
1: Change LoadBehavior value in registry editor by doing the following procedures:
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Exit Foxit PDF Editor and Microsoft office.
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Start Registry Editor.
In Windows 7, click Start, type regedit.exe in the search box, and then press Enter.
In Windows 10, Windows 8.1, and Windows 8, press the Windows key + R to open a Run dialog box, type regedit.exe, and then click OK.
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Find the following two registry keys separately:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Word\Addins\WordAddinPH.FpcWordAddin
HKEY_CURRENt_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Word\Addins\WordAddinPH.FpcWordAddin
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Please modify the value of LoadBehavior under all of the above two registry keys into “3” if its value is anything other than “3”.To modify the value of LoadBehavior, please Right click on LoadBehavior, click on Modify to open the Edit DWORD Value popup box, input “3”（without double quotation marks ）in the Value Data Box and click OK. And close the registry editor.
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Open Microsoft word file to see if the add-in could load at startup.
For reloading Foxit creator add-in in Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Excel, please find their corresponding LoadBehavior under the following registry keys and modify the value of LoadBehavior into “3”.
Microsoft Outlook :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins\OutlookAddin.OutlAddin
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins\OutlookAddin.OutlAddin
Microsoft PowerPoint:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\PowerPoint\Addins\PPTAddin.PowerPointAddin
HKEY_CURRENt_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\PowerPoint\Addins\PPTAddin.PowerPointAddin
Microsoft Excel:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Excel\Addins\ExcelAddin.ExcelAddinPH
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Excel\Addins\ExcelAddin.ExcelAddinPH
Microsoft Visio：
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Visio\Addins\VisioAddin.VisioAddinPH
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Visio\Addins\VisioAddin.VisioAddinPH
(The Foxit Creator add-in for Visio only would load in Micorsoft Visio when you use Business edition of Foxit PDF Editor Pro)
If Foxit Creator Add-in still not appear on Microsoft toolbar when login to computer with a non-administrator account, please proceed to do the next steps.
2: Open Microsoft Office application as administrative rights and then reload the Foxit Creator Addin from within Microsoft Office by doing the following procedures (Taking Microsoft Word as an example):
1)Refer the following instructions to open Microsoft Word as administrator.
How to open Micorsoft Word as administrator on Windows 10
How to open Micorsoft Word as administrator on Windows 8
How to open Micorsoft Word as administrator on Windows 7
If you are working on Windows 10, you can start Microsoft Word as administrator as follows:
· Please click the Search button in the Task Bar;
· Type Word into the Search box at the bottom of search menu;
· Click the Word program with holding the Ctrl + Shift keys. See screenshot:
· In the popping up User Account Control dialog box, please click the Yes button to go ahead. Now you get into the Microsoft Word as administer.
If you are working on Windows 8, you can start Microsoft Word as administrator as follows:
· Press the Win + Q keys to activate the Search pane at the far right of desktop.
· Type Word into the search box in the Search Pane.
· Click the Word program with holding the Ctrl + Shift keys.
· In the popping up User Account Control dialog box, please click the Yes button to go ahead. Now you get into the Microsoft Word as administer.
If you are working on Windows 7, you can start Microsoft Word as administrator as follows:
· Click the Start button on the Task Bar to display the start menu.
· Type Word into the Search box at the bottom of start menu.
· Click the Word program with holding the Ctrl + Shift keys. See screenshot:
· In the popping up User Account Control dialog box, please click the Yes button to go ahead. Now you get into the Microsoft Word as administer.
2) Make the Foxit Creator add-in reloading after you having opened Microsoft Word as administrator.
· After you open Microsoft Word application as administrator, click on Open Other Documents >Browser to open any of local word documents.
· In the opened word file, go to File tab > Options > Add-ins.
· Look into the Inactive Application Add-ins and Disabled Application Add-ins, check if Foxit PDF Creator COM Add-in is listed under anyone of them.
If it is, go forward to next step.
If not, you might not install Foxit office Add-ins. You need to re-install Foxit application, choose custom install to enable the Foxit office Add-ins.
· If the Foxit PDF Creator Com Addin is under Disabled Application Add-ins, please click on the inverted triangle in the Manage box, select Disabled Items, choose Go. In the following pop-up Disabled Items window, please single click on the Foxit PDF Creator Com Addin to make it to be selected, click Enable to enable Foxit PDF Creator Com Addin in Microsoft Word.
· Click on the inverted triangle in the Manage box, select Com Add-ins, choose Go. In the following pop-up COM Add-in window, please single click on the Foxit PDF Creator Com Addin to select it, click Remove to remove it.
· In the Com Add-ins window, click on Add to navigate to your Foxit Foxit PDF Editor's main installation folder to select FPC_WordAddin_x64.dll or FPC_WordAddin_x86.dll file and click OK to make the Foxit PDF Creator Com Add-in shown in COM Add-ins window again.
For 32-bit version of Microsoft office,select FPC_WordAddin_x86.dll file.
For 64-bit version of Microsoft office,select FPC_WordAddin_x64.dll file.
Suppose you have Foxit PDF Editor installed on “C:\Program Files (x86)\Foxit Software\Foxit PDF Editor” and the Microsoft office you installed is 64-bits version, you should navigate to the following folder to select FPC_WordAddin_x64.dll file:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Foxit Software\Foxit PDF Editor\plugins\Creator\x64
· In the Com Add-ins window, Check the box before Foxit PDF Creator COM Add-in if it is not checked, click on OK to apply the change.
3: Finally, close the opened word file which was opened with administrator rights, then double click on any word document to open it. You would find that the Foxit Creator add-in should now load on Microsoft word toolbar automatically at startup.
If the above instructions still don't help, please help to follow these steps from Microsoft to "whitelist" our Foxit creator add-ins and force Office to always have them enabled.
