eDraw and MS Word in PB
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William Beale
- PowerBuilder
- Wednesday, 17 June 2026 12:26 AM UTC
Embedded eDraw third-party add-in is no longer working with the latest version of MS Word. We use eDraw to utilise MS Word in several locations as a rich-text editor in a 2022R2 PB application. MS has ramped up security in MS Word, and it will no longer work for eDraw.
We've tried contacting eDraw but they've moved on and it seems impossible to get technical advice from them.
MS published these workarounds, but none work for the application:
“When this change takes effect, if you need to use ActiveX controls in Office documents, you can change back to the previous default behavior using any one of the following methods:
In the Trust Center Settings dialog, under ActiveX Settings, select the Prompt me before enabling all controls with minimal restrictions option.
In the registry, set HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\Security\DisableAllActiveX to 0 (REG_DWORD).
Set the Disable All ActiveX group policy setting to 0.”
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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