When one selects text in the document, one gets a delightful little pop-up
menu toolbar with the font, bold, color change feature, etc. right where the
mouse clicks.

What is this darn thing and how do I nuke it to heck??? Can't figure out the
proper search terms to even find information on it, let alone turn it off.

Help is, as always, appreciated.

It's called the Mini Toolbar and it can be nuked by clicking the Microsoft
Office Button, clicking Word Options and then in the Popular section, turn
off "Show Mini Toolbar on selection". Great concept but it definitely gets
in your way!

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email cannot be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

"That70sHeidi" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> When one selects text in the document, one gets a delightful little pop-up
> menu toolbar with the font, bold, color change feature, etc. right where
> the
> mouse clicks.
>
> What is this darn thing and how do I nuke it to heck??? Can't figure out
> the
> proper search terms to even find information on it, let alone turn it off.
>
> Help is, as always, appreciated.

Thank you thank you thank you! It always seems to pop up right over what I
need to change. I'm having a baaaaad Word 2007 day

"Beth Melton" wrote:

> It's called the Mini Toolbar and it can be nuked by clicking the Microsoft
> Office Button, clicking Word Options and then in the Popular section, turn
> off "Show Mini Toolbar on selection". Great concept but it definitely gets
> in your way!
>
> Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
> assistance by email cannot be acknowledged.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Beth Melton
> Microsoft Office MVP
>
> Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out:
> http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook
>
> Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
> TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
> MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/
>
> "That70sHeidi" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:CA4FE26F-596C-493C-A21F-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > When one selects text in the document, one gets a delightful little pop-up
> > menu toolbar with the font, bold, color change feature, etc. right where
> > the
> > mouse clicks.
> >
> > What is this darn thing and how do I nuke it to heck??? Can't figure out
> > the
> > proper search terms to even find information on it, let alone turn it off.
> >
> > Help is, as always, appreciated.
>
>
>