OfficeIns: Office Addin Manager (Enable/Disable Outlook/Word/Excel Add-Ins)

OfficeIns v1.03 - Office Add-ins Manager
Copyright (c) 2004 - 2005 Nir Sofer

Description

OfficeIns is a small utility that displays the details of all installed Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, and so on...) add-ins on your computer, and allows you to disable / enable them.

Versions History

Version 1.03 - Added .NET Version column.
Version 1.02 - Added support for Windows XP visual styles.
Version 1.01 - Fixed the exception problem that occurred in some systems.
Version 1.00 - First Release.

Using OfficeIns

OfficeIns doesn't require any installation process or additional DLLs. In order to start using it, just copy all files from the ZIP archive into a new folder, and run the executable file - OfficeIns.exe

The main window of OfficeIns displays the list of all installed add-ins for Microsoft Office products, including Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Access, Visio, and FrontPage.
If you want to disable one or more office add-ins, select the desired add-in items, and from the File menu (or from the popup menu) select "Change Start Mode->Disabled". In order to enable back an add-in that you previously disabled, select the previous start mode under the "Change Start Mode" menu. (In most cases, it'll be "Load At Startup" mode)

Command-Line Options

/stext <Filename>	Save the list of all installed office add-ins into a regular text file.
/stab <Filename>	Save the list of all installed office add-ins into a tab-delimited text file.
/stabular <Filename>	Save the list of all installed office add-ins into a tabular text file.
/shtml <Filename>	Save the list of all installed office add-ins into HTML file (Horizontal).
/sverhtml <Filename>	Save the list of all installed office add-ins into HTML file (Vertical).
/sxml <Filename>	Save the list of all installed office add-ins to XML file.

Translating OfficeIns to other languages

In order to translate OfficeIns to other language, follow the instructions below:

Run OfficeIns with /savelangfile parameter:
officeins.exe /savelangfile
A file named officeins_lng.ini will be created in the folder of OfficeIns utility.
Open the created language file in Notepad or in any other text editor.
Translate all string entries to the desired language. Optionally, you can also add your name and/or a link to your Web site. (TranslatorName and TranslatorURL values) If you add this information, it'll be used in the 'About' window.
After you finish the translation, Run OfficeIns, and all translated strings will be loaded from the language file.
If you want to run OfficeIns without the translation, simply rename the language file, or move it to another folder.

License

This utility is released as freeware. You are allowed to freely distribute this utility via floppy disk, CD-ROM, Internet, or in any other way, as long as you don't charge anything for this. If you distribute this utility, you must include all files in the distribution package, without any modification !

Disclaimer

The software is provided "AS IS" without any warranty, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The author will not be liable for any special, incidental, consequential or indirect damages due to loss of data or any other reason.

Feedback

If you have any problem, suggestion, comment, or you found a bug in my utility, you can send a message to nirsofer@yahoo.com

Download OfficeIns

OfficeIns is also available in other languages. In order to change the language of OfficeIns, download the appropriate language zip file, extract the 'officeins_lng.ini', and put it in the same folder that you Installed OfficeIns utility.

Language Translated By
Polish Szymon Ogrodnik
French Jean-Michel Gillion - www.etrad.net
Dutch Bob Loeffen
Japanese X-WORKS
German Arno Krumpholz
Italian Giacomo Margarito
Hebrew
Turkish Emrah nder
Portuguese-Brazil Mark Nascimento
Taiwanese Eros
Russian Dmitry Yerokhin
Simplified Chinese wilson ko
Traditional Chinese wilson ko
German Latino
Spanish Javier Orellana
Spanish Alberto.Schiano
Greek George Georgiou