Doug,
I am having the exact problem which you describe below.  I have created a
global addin that starts when Word (2003) is opened, which generates a custom
menu bar.  This menu bar includes shortcuts to all of our company's
correspondence documents.  I would like to place this addin in each
co-worker's start-up folder so when they begin Word, the menu bar will
automatically generate.  However, our company uses Outlook as its e-mail
manager, and most everyone opens this application when they first log on in
the morning.  Then when Word is fired up, it sees that the addin is already
open in Outlook, and does not trigger the Autoexec action.  Is there any way
around this??  I do not want to close Outlook each time Word is opened, nor
do I want to run the macro manually within Word.  I tried the other
suggestions from this post already, and nothing has worked so far.

I think your problem maybe "Tools>Macros>Security"

Hi eric

I have most probably a similar problem: I got a template in the word
startup-folder. In general, the autoexec macro runs fine, but on some
PC's (out of approx 300) there are problems. The template is read, but
the macro does not start or does not execute as planned. My questions:
1. when your macro is not executed, is at least the template read?
2. where is the templated stored?

My present work-around:
code in autoexec:
 Application.OnTime When:=Now + TimeValue("00:00:03"), _
    Name:="start_macro"

The start_macro contains the actual code.

regards

Jürgen

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