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January 10, 2013
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Acrobat tab missing from MS Word

  • January 10, 2013
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My colleage tried to create a PDF out of MS Word doc last week but MS Word crashed. She was asked to disable the PDFMaker plug-in from MS Word to solve the issue. After they did that, Word automatically recovered. However, the Acrobat tab was not displayed. She tried to add the plug-in back through Word Options>Add-Ins> COM Add-ins but the Acrobat tab was still missing. Both of them were running Office 2007 on Windows 7 (64b).

This week, after I upgraded my system to Windows 7 ((64bit)) and MS Office to Office 2010, I had the similar issue (Word crashed, Acrobat tab missing, and add-in failed to add back). Then I tried all methods listed here: http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/pdfmaker-unavailable-office-2007-office.html, but the problem wasn’t solved.

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Correct answer Rave

Adobe has not formally tested Acrobat 9 software with Microsoft Office 2010 applications, and does not certify the behavior of using the two programs together.

Office 2010 (64-bit) is currently not supported.

Please refer : http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/multi/known-issues-acrobat-9-pdfmaker.html

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Participant
January 6, 2014

The following worked for me, deleting the add-in and adding again:

Office 2010 (Acrobat X and Acrobat XI only)

  1. Open the Microsoft Office 2010 application.
  2. Click the blue File menu (in the upper-left corner). Click the Options button. Choose Add-Ins in the list on the left side of the Options window.
  3. Choose COM Add-ins in the Manage pop-up menu at the bottom of the Options window or the Trust Center window.
  4. Click Go.
  5. Look for Acrobat PDFMaker Office COM Add-In in the list.
  6. Select Acrobat PDFMaker Office COM Add-In. Click Remove.
  7. Click Add and navigate to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat [9.0 or 10.0]\PDFMaker\Office. Select PDFMOfficeAddin.dll. Click OK. Then close and reopen the Office 2010 application.
Rave
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Community Manager
January 11, 2013

Hi,

What version of Acrobat are you using?

The Acrobat X PDFMaker is designed to run in 32-bit versions of Microsoft Office applications.

Please check if you are using a 32 bit MS Offcie or 6 bit.

January 11, 2013

I am using Acrobat 9 on 64-bit MS Office 2010. Is there a compatibility problem?

Rave
Community Manager
RaveCommunity ManagerCorrect answer
Community Manager
January 11, 2013

Adobe has not formally tested Acrobat 9 software with Microsoft Office 2010 applications, and does not certify the behavior of using the two programs together.

Office 2010 (64-bit) is currently not supported.

Please refer : http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/multi/known-issues-acrobat-9-pdfmaker.html