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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Workspace Planning Analytics
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 28, 2020

Do not Add the Planning Analytics COM Addin to MS Word

When we install Planning Analytics for Excel, 2 Excel Addin and 1 COM addin are added to Excel

However the COM Addin "IBM Framework for Office" is also added to Word

Users are facing various problems in Word because of this Addin. Performance issue and Hang of Word

To get around the problem we had to disable the Addin from Word (File-->Options-->Addin)

We also had to modify the registry at below location to set the load behavior to 0 so that the Addin is not readded at every launch of Word [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Word\Addins\CognosOffice12.Connect]

Not all users have access to registry so Admin needs to do this for all users which is a cumbersome task