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Unable to load OfficePluginRes.dll

September 7th, 2009 eddsn Leave a comment Go to comments

Haven’t seen much of solutions on the net about this, so here’s my own workaround.

There are some “addins” that are used by all office programs, and apparently the contribute plugin somehow got broken on my system.

The error while starting any of the office programs might look something like this:
“Unable to load OfficePluginRes.dll. Contribute may not be installed properly.”

The fix is to disable the loading of this addin by simply doing the following:
1. Run regedit
2. Go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\
3. Pick your program where the error occurs (in my case Outlook)
4. Open: Adobe.Contribute.OfficePlugin
5. The DWORD value “LoadBehavior” should be set on 3. Change it to 0.

This should be a quick fix to get rid of that nasty message.

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  1. Naz
    October 17th, 2009 at 13:09 | #1

    Thank you very much, it did work perfectly.
    Many thanks again for your help.
    Naz.

  2. Wendy K
    November 2nd, 2009 at 09:25 | #2

    Thank you so much for the fix.
    It worked.

    Thanks again,

    Wendy.

  3. Eddy
    November 11th, 2009 at 11:36 | #3

    THANKS SO MUCH

    now i have no hassle at all. I thank you so much

  4. Koen Nguyen
    December 31st, 2009 at 14:07 | #4

    Yes! it works excellent!
    Thanks for your help man!
    Happy hollidays to all
    Cheers,

  5. Ruben M
    February 12th, 2010 at 17:22 | #5

    that warning is gone now

    now i get another one that the file is not available

    can you help me ?

  6. February 12th, 2010 at 19:34 | #6

    @Ruben M
    Can you post here a screenshot and/or give some more details about the error?

  7. Nael
    May 18th, 2010 at 07:19 | #7

    It worked aftre 2 days of install, uninstall, etc….

    Thank you so much for the fix.

  8. davidino
    May 25th, 2010 at 02:23 | #8

    awesome, it really works well.

    Much appreciated.

  9. Emily
    June 15th, 2010 at 02:07 | #9

    Awesome, thanks for the very quick fix : )

  10. June 27th, 2010 at 03:53 | #10

    Thanx for the tips…

    It did reallly works….

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