# MSAutomation Plugin **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [July 17, 2013, 7:16am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/msautomation-plugin/9600 "2013-07-17T07:16:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nick\_P](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/76d3ee/32.png) [@Nick\_P](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Nick_P)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 7:16am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/msautomation-plugin/9600/1 "2013-07-17T07:16:20Z")
Hi The MSAutomation plugin seems to be missing from the xojo2013r2 download…or at least I cannot find it in the plugins folder (which contains MSSQL/Mysql,OBDC, Oracle and Postgre plugins) or searching for it with explorer. So can I use xojo2013r1 MSAutomation plugin?..just copy and paste it to the plugins folder? ---
**Author:** ![Wayne\_Golding](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/wayne_golding/32/165_2.png) [@Wayne\_Golding](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Wayne_Golding)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 8:03am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/msautomation-plugin/9600/2 "2013-07-17T08:03:40Z")
You probably need to copy it from the extras\office automation folder into your plugins folder then restart Xojo. ---
**Author:** ![Nick\_P](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/76d3ee/32.png) [@Nick\_P](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Nick_P)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 8:53am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/msautomation-plugin/9600/3 "2013-07-17T08:53:44Z")
Thanks Wayne for the answer. I immediately recalled that after posting. But thanks for taking the time to reply…wish you could edit posts ---
**Author:** ![N\_January](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/b487fb/32.png) [@N\_January](https://forum.xojo.com/u/N_January)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 10:23pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/msautomation-plugin/9600/4 "2013-07-17T22:23:06Z")
Should be a setup feature IMO ---
**Author:** ![Wayne\_Golding](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/wayne_golding/32/165_2.png) [@Wayne\_Golding](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Wayne_Golding)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2013, 8:48am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/msautomation-plugin/9600/5 "2013-07-18T08:48:44Z")
It is mentioned in the upgrade guide, but I do wonder why it was removed. ---
**Author:** ![William\_Yu](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/william_yu/32/610_2.png) [@William\_Yu](https://forum.xojo.com/u/William_Yu)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2013, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/msautomation-plugin/9600/6 "2013-07-18T14:30:15Z")
It was removed for several reasons: 1. It ate up a lot of memory 2. It slows down Autocomplete and IDE loading 3. Wasn’t really relevant for OS X or Linux IDEs ---
**Author:** ![Nick\_P](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/76d3ee/32.png) [@Nick\_P](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Nick_P)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2013, 2:49pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/msautomation-plugin/9600/7 "2013-07-18T14:49:20Z")
Still as an option when installing xojo would be more professional imo rather than having to read the forums, and scratch around. As I say jimo ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Corlett](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@Richard\_Corlett](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Richard_Corlett)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 4:29am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/msautomation-plugin/9600/8 "2013-07-19T04:29:33Z")
> [@20929:@William Yu](#): > > Wasn’t really relevant for OS X or Linux IDEs Hmm, I’m not sure why you assume that Mac and Linux users would not be building for Windows! Anyway, the present arrangement is working fine. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://forum.xojo.com/uploads/default/original/1X/455b4dcc0e61630e9f81940004ddffa49c432a46.png) [@system](https://forum.xojo.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 4:45pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/msautomation-plugin/9600/9 "2020-10-29T16:45:20Z")