Office 365 Installation prevents Autodesk Inventor 2014 starting up

Office 365 Installation prevents Autodesk Inventor 2014 starting up

Installing Office 365 will remove VBA 7 modules and prevent Inventor 2014 from working properly

Issue

Installing Office 365 will remove VBA 7 modules from your computer, leading to the following:

  • Error messages are shown during Inventor 2014 launch
  • Unable open any document from Inventor 2014
  • Error messages are shown when executing VBA commands from AutoCAD

 

Solution

Standalone:

Close Inventor session and manually install VBA7 from Inventor source media:

64-bit

Install VBA7 from “3rdPartyx64VBAVba7.MSI” .

32-bit

Install VBA7 from “3rdPartyx86VBAVba7.MSI” .


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