Does anyone have any suggestions?

DEFINE CLASS WordEventHandler as BizObj
IMPLEMENTS ApplicationEvents2 IN {00020905-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}#8.3

FWIW, if you are distributing executables, the hard-coded path to the type library is irrelevant. This is a compile-time issue. The only time it mattters is if you are distributing source code.