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Originally Posted by Hitch
Welcome to the club. It's ALWAYS deactivated for me. Drives me insane. I think that BetterRed figured out a way to fix that, though? Somewhere on this thread? Red, you out there?
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See post 663 and following dozen or so posts.
What I discovered is that for me at least, ePUBTools disappears less often (muchly) with Office 365, and can be reinstated simply by restarting Word. I am uncertain if this is also true of vanilla Word 2016 as I only used it for a short while before moving to Office 365 - theoretically it should.
Prior to switching to Office 365, the disappearance of ePUBTools was always intermittent for me. Typically it would stick around for a few days/weeks and then for no apparent reason disappear - it was not updates to Word. This was true on Word 2007 and 2010 (I skipped 2013), and it always necessitated uninstall/reinstall of the addin, poking around in Options->Add-ins was a waste of time. Uninstall/reinstall left the settings in place which made it relatively painless.
I use a 'tweak' that Toxaris added at my request, the environment variable setting TOX_EPUBTOOLS_MONITORING=0 seems to make a difference to the add-in going AWOL - but I can't explain why that should be.
I use three other 3rd party COM add-ins, one of which has disappeared very, very occasionally (maybe 3 times in a decade), and restarting Word has always reinstated it; I can't recall the other two ever disappearing.
BR