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PDFMaker COM Add-in Issue in Excel for Adobe Acrobat Pro User

  • July 25, 2024
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Good afternoon, everyone.

I have a user in my organization who uses Adobe Acrobat Pro.

This user creates PDFs from documents created in Microsoft Office 2016.

 

The PDFMaker Com add-in for Excel has stopped working, although it still works in Word.

I have checked the registry path “HKEY_Local_Machine\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Excel\Addins\PDFMaker.OfficeAddin” and can confirm that the load behavior is set to 3.

 

I have run Excel as an Administrator, opened the COM Add-ins, selected “Acrobat PDFMaker Office COM add-in,” and clicked OK. This action enables the PDF Maker for as long as Excel is open.

However, once you close and reopen Excel, the PDF Maker is disabled. The COM Add-in reverts to Load Behavior: Unloaded.

 

Thank you all.

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Community Manager
February 27, 2025

Sorry for the delayed response and troubled experience. 

 

Since you are able to enable the add-in and later, after the restart/re-launch of MS Excel, the add-in disables itself. It can be 

1. Group policy.

2. Registry set by Admin 

 

You can visit this help page for PDFMaker troubleshooting: https://adobe.ly/4hY5p6o;

 

 

Let us know if you have any questions. 

 

 


~Tariq