COMAddIns Object

A collection of COMAddIn objects that provide information about a COM add-in registered in the Windows registry.

Note
The use of CommandBars in some Microsoft Office applications has been superseded by the new Ribbon user interface. For more information, search help for the keyword "Ribbon."

Example

Use the COMAddIns property of the Application object to return the COMAddIns collection for a Microsoft Office host application. This collection contains all of the COM add-ins that are available to a given Office host application, and the Count property of the COMAddins collection returns the number of available COM add-ins, as in the following example.

MsgBox Application.COMAddIns.Count

Use the Update method of the COMAddins collection to refresh the list of COM add-ins from the Windows registry, as in the following example.

Application.COMAddIns.Update

Use COMAddIns.Item(index), whereis either an ordinal value that returns the COM add-in at that position in the COMAddInscollection, or a Stringvalue that represents the ProgID of the specified COM add-in. The following example displays a COM add-in's description text and ProgID ("msodraa9.ShapeSelect") in a message box.

MsgBox Application.COMAddIns.Item("msodraa9.ShapeSelect").Description

See also:

• Object Model Reference
• COMAddIns Object Members