"Save as PDF" stopped working...

I purchased this add-on for my Adobe 8 version to convert my excel spreads into PDF's. It all the sudden stopped working. I click on the icon and nothing happens now. Any ideas?

What add-on and what Adobe 8?
Adobe is a company not an application and there is no add-on for the free Reader that creates PDF's so you're going to have to give a bit more information.

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I am using Photoshop/Lightroom Photography CC, Office 2010 on Windows 7 Home (64bit).
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Could there be a link?
I'm pretty sure I haven't made any other changes, or Windows updates.
The response from Excel is "Document not saved" and from Word it's "The export failed due to an unexpected error." No other indication of what the problem might be and nothing in the Event Logs.
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OK - I did a Restore to a point the day before the Photoshop updates were released. The Restore point told me that only Photoshop and Lightroom would be affected. After the Restore Lightroom was indeed at the earlier version but strangely, Photoshop wasn't.
However - the "Save to PDF" in Word & Excel were now working.
I Uninstalled Photoshop, and then reinstalled it and the latest version of Lightroom.
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There are no Windows updates needed - that's all up to date.
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Help - this function has stopped working!
It still appears in the drop down menu but is greyed out. It's in the startup scripts and ticked and is in both output modules folders in the system and users library folders. Have tried everything to get it working again barring a re-install which I'm loathe to do (time it takes!).
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Module Mac and you will get there.
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