Drawing Toolbar won't leave

[Justin]

Okay, I've recently loaded PowerPoint XP (2002) and like it very much. One
of the things I did was customize all my toolbars so I don't have a bunch of
icons I don't use crowding my workspace. I've taken the most useful icons
from various toobars, including the Drawing toolbar, and put them on two
sepearte customized toolbars, one of which I placed it in the default area
for the Drawing toobar.Oh, and have turned the Drawing toobar off .
However, every time I open PowerPoint, the Drawing toolbar reappaers
floating in the middle of my screen. I don't need it anymore, is there
anyway, I can I make this not happen anymore?
Any ideas?

thanks,

Justin

 

[Sonia]

Can you describe how you removed the Drawing toolbar, yet used the space
that it normally occupies for other tools? I can't replicate what you have
described. On my system, if I remove the Drawing toolbar the space is no
longer visible or available to me for adding other tools.

 

[Troy @ TLC Creative]

Hi Justin,

I also run a very customized set of toolbars. I am guessing you turned off
the drawing toolbar in the Customize window. You need to drag the drawing
toolbar onto the workspace (on top of a slide) and then click the "x" to
disable it. With it gone, quit PPT to save your settings and then restart.
Should be gone.

Side Note: You should run the "Save My Settings" wizard. Find it in the MS
Office Tools folder. If, when, your toolbars become corrupt this will allow
you to reset them as you have specified.
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Troy Chollar
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[Justin]

Unfortunately, it makes no difference how I turn off the Drawing toolbar.
If I turn it off in Custom Toolbars or just close it by clicking the "X" in
the toolbar it still returns when I re-open PowerPoint but I will check that
save settings thing, thanks.

Regarding placing toolbars on the bottom. . .you can dock a toolbar on the
bottom of the screen just as you can on the top, (or either side for that
matter) Just drag it down there and it will find it's 'docking station'.

Justin

 

[Rick Altman]

Justin, if you can't beat 'em, then join 'em.

Instead of trying to rid yourself of a toolbar that is hard-wired to always
be there, change the Drawing toolbar. You said that you have created two
toolbars that are customized to the hilt, right? Well, start with the
Drawing toolbar and turn it into one of those two. Even if you get rid of
every single icon on that toolbar and add a bunch that have nothing to do
with drawing -- if PowerPoint insists on having it there, just beat it at
its own game...

 

[Justin]

I thought about that, though ideally I'd like to maintain the integrity of
the Drawing toolbar.
No biggee, I can always re-set it. As far as I can tell so far your idea
makes the most sense.
Thanks

Justin