Unable to find BI Publisher Add in button in Word 2016

Question

I am trying to install BI Publisher add on for Word on my system. Below is the configuration of my system:

• Windows 7- 64 Bit
• JRE - 64 Bit
• Microsoft office 2016 - 64 Bit
• BIPublisher - 32 Bit ( The 64 bit version is not installing, stating a message "Please use 32 bit version)

I tried using Java 32 and 64 bit versions, but I am still not seeing the BI Publisher tab in my word or excel.

Below is the Java version details on my machine.

Steps I tried:

1. https://mani2web.wordpress.com/2016/06/18/issues-with-oracle-bi-publisher-with-microsoft-word-2016/
2. http://www.catgovind.com/obiee/solved-bi-publisher-tab-is-not-visible-in-ms-word/
3. http://www.redstk.com/bi-publisher-desktop-menu-ribbon-not-displaying-correctly/

Answer 1

The Office 64 bit and BI Publisher 64 bit should match.

I was able to use BI Publisher 64 bit (Version: 11.117.0.79; MD5 Hash: e47ab8d8b0cd71a891c29ecc5df17cdd; Size: 237 MB (249,504,566 bytes)) with Word 2013 64 bit. Found my version by right clicking install file and reviewing properties. Their website lists 11.1.1.7 (I really don't get how disorganized Oracle is)

Also, may want do downgrade your JRE Last I was using was 7 Update 45 (7.0.450.18). Every time Oracle updates stuff, it becomes incompatible with nearly everything else.

Many versions available here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-publisher/downloads/index.html

Good luck!