Office Add-ins not working on 21.5 and previous version

Hector Leiva · 2025-04-10T15:50:04+00:00

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Our work laptops were running two different versions of Bluebeam, and in both of those versions, we were unable to use the Microsoft Office add-ins.

We keep hearing that there is a problem with Bluebeam, and I am curious whether anyone else is having the same problem.

I'm interested in learning if the problem is a recurring software issue or if our company might not be correctly deploying the installations.

Thanks,

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Jes Stafford

Everything is working fine here on that front @Hector Leiva . Have you checked the Revu/Administrator menu item dialog box to make sure all the necessary plugins are selected?

Hector Leiva

Hello Jes,

Yes, the administration tab has the plugins selected. I suspect the issue is related to the way our IT is deploying Bluebeam updates. When you look at the plugins in any of the Office programs, the add-ins do not display a proper path or file association.

I have tried to manually locate the correct dll files to add them from Word and Excel, and I'm not able to find them.

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