It’s common for an Office add-in to put some custom menu items or toolbar buttons in the UI of the hosting application. The method to call to do this is CommandBars.Add. It is also typical that you’d like those customizations to appear so long as the add-in gets loaded, but not appear if it doesn’t. If your add-in gets uninstalled, for example, you clearly don’t want left-over customizations littering the application. For this reason, the Add method’s final parameter is a boolean that indicates whether a particular added control should be added temporarily. The documentation describes the parameter like this:

Temporary

Optional Object. True to make the new control temporary. Temporary controls are automatically deleted when the container application is closed. The default value is False.

This looks perfect. You can add the customizations at startup, and they’ll be gone at shutdown… except that it doesn’t work in Word.
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I have to admit to being a bit of a Luddite when it comes to cell phones. In spite of being in the generally gadget-friendly demographic of software engineers, and someone who bought the very first Palm Pilot model within days of its launch, I’ve not yet owned a cell phone. But that may actually change soon.

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