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Asle,
I am really sorry for causing you frastration but we did look at the x64 version of Office and creating an add-in for it. Based off Microsoft's own recommendation, we made the decision not to create the x64 add-in for MS Office.
This is statement is from Microsoft's web site:
Will Office 2010 products be available in 64-bit versions?
Yes, Office 2010 products are available in 64-bit versions; however, for the best productivity and user experience, Microsoft recommends 32-bit Office 2010 for both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. Office 64-bit is optimized for advanced data analysis scenarios that most users don’t require, and existing 32-bit add-ins are not supported on Office 64-bit.
If we do find that there are more users, like yourself, have switched to using the x64 version of Office. We will evaluate the possibility of creating the x64 add-in.
Irrespective of what microsoft say, we have paid for 64bit OS's so we can run supposendly superior 64bit software.
Given the opportunity (our office licenses are available with 2007 32bit, 2010 32bit or 64bit) we would choose 64bit 2010 office everyday of the week.
If i hadn't stumbled across this I would have installed Office 2010 64bit! Otherwise I struggle to see the point in upgrading to 2010 from 2007........
Another bit of sloppiness from Autodesk, if you weren't going to create a 64bit Office 2010 add in for vault then you should have made it very clear instead of wasting your clients time. Even if it's the installer picking up on 64bit office being installed during the vault client installation, it would be better than nothing!
Scott Moyse
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There are issues with the Excel add-in anyway! it forcefully removes the default excel setting that askes the user if they would like to update the external document links.
We discovered this the hard way. As soon as i installed vault onto our scheduling guys PC, excel set about updating th elinks to every management report he opened in Excel, for 2 weeks it was corrupting our management reporting data, until we figured out what was causing it. Its reproducible as well! across multiple versions and platforms. Which leads me to believe its as designed! I bet some software geek with bottle top glasses decided they needed to turn that default behaviour off in Excel to suit Vault with no consideration for the fact that a lot of people will infact use Excel outside of Vault!
Here's a thought, NOT EVERYONE WANTS TO PUT EVERYTHING IN VAULT EVEN IF THEY HAVE VAULT INSTALLED ON THEIR MACHINE! poor form from Autodesk here.
Anyway rant over, I have taken it up with the appropriate people, and will have to wait and see how that pans out.
(FYI I'm a geek too but don't have bottle top glasses!)
Scott Moyse
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it happens with the 2011 & 2012 addins in office 2003, 2007 & 2010:
It unchecks the following box (in 2003 its under app options>edit)
everytime you tick it, then close excel, next time you restart it the add-in removes the tick again.
This should probably be started in a new thread, its a serious issue that needs to be dealt with IMO.
Scott Moyse
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I don't understand your reply! Please can you explain it more clearly.
For the record I had an Autodesk Vault Product manager here on site a couple of weeks ago and verified this was a problem! He still has to verify if its as designed or not.
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its not good behaviour simply because disabling it affects files and work that has absolutly nothing to do with Vault or the Design process. This should be detailed in the documentation as a warning upon installing the Office add-in! I could see Autodesk getting sued in the US for causing undue costs to a company for corrupting data!
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so can you specify wether a link is manual or automatic when you create the links? or is it a setting in the document? i think i have seen the setting in the document, but its late here now and can't be bothered to check. will have a look tomorrow at work.
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