Enabling and Disabling Smart View and Other Office Add-ins

You can enable and disable Oracle Smart View for Office and other Microsoft Office add-ins from the Add-Ins tab in Excel Options. In some cases, Smart View performance can be improved when other Office add-ins are disabled.

To enable or disable Smart View or other Office add-ins for all applicable Office applications (including Outlook):

Open Excel, Word or PowerPoint.

Do not use Outlook to enable and disable Office add-ins.
Perform the task appropriate for your Office version:
- 2016, 2013, 2010: Go to File, then Options, and then Add-Ins.
- 2007: Click the Office button in the top left corner of Excel, then select Excel Options, and then Add-Ins.
Continue with step 3 to work with COM Add-ins. Continue with step 4 to work with Excel Add-ins.
To enable or disable COM add-ins, from Manage, select COM Add-ins, then click Go and then perform a task:
- To enable add-ins, ensure that the check box next to the add-in is checked.
  
  If the check box next to the add-in is cleared, then click the check box to select it, and then click OK.
  
  If the add-in you want to enable is not in the list, click Add, navigate to the location of the add-in file in your system and select it, then click OK, and then click OK again in the COM Add-Ins dialog to close it.
- To disable add-ins, ensure that the check box next to the add-in is cleared.
  
  If the check box next to the add-in is checked, then click the check box to clear it, and then click OK.
In the following example COM Add-Ins dialog box, the Acrobat PDFMaker Office COM Addin, is disabled; other available add-ins are enabled, including Smart View.
To enable or disable Excel add-ins, from Manage, select Excel Add-ins, then click Go and then perform a task:
- To enable add-ins, ensure that the check box next to the add-in is checked.
  
  If the check box next to the add-in is cleared, then click the check box to select it, and then click OK.
  
  If the add-in you want to enable is not in the list, click Browse, navigate to the location of the add-in file in your system and select it, then click OK, and then click OK again in the COM Add-Ins dialog to close it.
- To disable add-ins, ensure that the check box next to the add-in is cleared.
  
  If the check box next to the add-in is checked, then click the check box to clear it, and then click OK.
In the following example Add-Ins dialog box, the Smart View add-in, Hstbar, is disabled; other available add-ins are enabled. Note that these add-ins are not related to Smart View.
Restart any open Office applications.