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Gary King

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Jun 14, 2004
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How do I remove a toolbar from Microsoft Word, and make it gone for good? I can remove it for one session, but when I restart MS Word, then the toolbar reappears. The specific one that I am talking about is the Adobe Acrobat PDFMaker toolbar, which is very annoying. I even deleted it and it still reappeared.
 
Click on the arrow at the end of the the toolbar and go to customize toolbars/menus. on the toolbar tab, unclick the toolbars you don't want on the left had side. That will should stop it from appearing again. It works for me.
 
cwedl said:
Click on the arrow at the end of the the toolbar and go to customize toolbars/menus. on the toolbar tab, unclick the toolbars you don't want on the left had side. That will should stop it from appearing again. It works for me.
As I said, I even deleted the toolbar (and yes, I tried unchecking before that), and it still wouldn't work.
 
Gary King said:
As I said, I even deleted the toolbar (and yes, I tried unchecking before that), and it still wouldn't work.


I assume your using Abobe Acrobat Professional, I'm sure there is an option in that program so you can turn the office integration off, I'm pretty sure thats what I did for Office on windows, a while back, unfortunately I do not have access to my PC at the moment, Try preferences though in Adobe Acrobat Pro.
 
It's being loaded from the Startup folder in /Applications/Office/Microsofot Office X(or2004)/Office/Startup/

In there are subfolders for Poowerpoint, Excel, and Word. In THOSE are the PDF plug-in. Remove from there and away it goes, forever.

But you already know that. Wish I'd seen this thread earlier. WoW is too time consuming. :)
 
It seems that there are several related ways to accomplish the same thing. I did this a few months ago by deleting the offending files, but did not replace them with folders. I had to delete a couple of additional files...Acrobat "self-healing" files that try to fix what you've done.
 
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