Last Wednesday August 15, Security Patch MS12-060 from Microsoft hit the community and created quite some panic, because all of a sudden Add-Ins developed in VBA for Excel as well as for other Office applications stopped working. Depending on the Add-In you could either get error messages, crippled command bars or ribbons, or no warning at all.
In this patch, Microsoft replaced the ActiveX Windows Common Controls file MSCOMCTL.OCX with a more secure version. The same file has caused trouble earlier this year (April, 10).
Luckily, it appears that the problems are being caused by a faulty registration of this file into the Registry and that re-registering this file makes them disappear. This is a copy from TechNet. Mind that you must register the file as an Administrator otherwise the registration will fail.
The fix for this problem is to re-register MSCOMCTL.OCX. To do this, follow these steps:
- Open an administrative-level command prompt. Click START, and type RUN in the run command line. On Windows Vista and Windows 7 you will see CMD.EXE appear in the quick search list. Right click CMD.EXE and left click Run As Administrator. A black command prompt opens.
- If on a 64-bit machine, type the following:
regsvr32.exe /u C:\Windows\SysWOW64\MSCOMCTL.OCX
Press ENTER, then type
regsvr32.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\MSCOMCTL.OCX
If on a 32-bit machine, type the following:
regsvr32.exe /u C:\Windows\System32\MSCOMCTL.OCX
Press ENTER, then type
regsvr32.exe C:\Windows\System32\MSCOMCTL.OCX
Each time you press ENTER you will see a small informative message. This is normal. The first ENTER unregisters the file, the second registers the file.
According to this same link, you may also need to remove a key in the registry (I did not add it because for me this was not necessary). You may have to repeat the above actions.
I also re-registered MSCOMCT2.OCX, although not mentioned in the article, but only after I did my VBA running Office 2007 on W7 resumed full operation.
Your Office program should work again after doing this.
Dutch
Dutch Gemini's Weblog Pages 
Thanks a lot Dutch. I followed your instructions and it works fine now. You saved me a lot of time.
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Hi Dutch, thank you very much for this post. It worked for me. It solved my excel issue that I had after office 2007 update in april (“Receiving Compile error in hidden module: GlobalMacro “).
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