Word 2003 - can't get rid of 'Design Mode' button

[Guest]

Every time I open one particular Word document, which is basically a two
column table, I see a small button down at the bottom right of the doc and
outside it. View mode is 'Print Layout' at 75%, and the button is sitting on
the gray background outside the edge of the page.

When I mouse over the button I see the caption "Exit Design Mode". If I
click its X, it closes, but it'll reappear the next time I open the doc (and
only this doc - it doesn't happen with any other).

I've tried fiddling with controls but nothing I do gets permanently rid of
the button. Shutting it then closing and restarting the doc just brings it
back.

Advice would be appreciated.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Is this a form in which you have used tools from the control toolbox? These
tools are not intended for protected forms.

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[Peter Jamieson]

You may see this if the document has any controls from the control toolbox
(as Graham Mentions), but also if there are any macros under "This
Document". To check the latter, open the Visual Basic Editor, look for the
name of the document in the list of "Projects" near the top left, and click
the + to the left of the document name , then the + to the left of
"Microsoft Word Object"s. You should see "ThisDocument". Double-cllcik on
that. If there's anything in there, that's probably the reason you are
seeing this button.

Peter Jamieson

 

[Guest]

Sorry to be a while getting back - I couldn't find my way back here.

If I included any tools from the 'Control Toolbox', it certainly wasn't
intentional, as I don't even know where this toolbox is.

Peter, I can check your suggestion about the Visual Basic Editor
but..um..where is it, please?

Dunno if this fills in any blanks, but I routinely use (in my normally
simple and UN-complicated Word deployment) two macros. I create a lot of
tables in Word, (hi-tech stuff like shopping lists and DVD collections) and I
made one macro that inserts a line, and another that deletes a line.

But they're there in the background of all docs that I create, and I've
never seen the 'design mode' thingo in any other document. There must be
something that I inadvertently clicked that I don't usually touch.

Now, if I can just build a decent signpost, maybe I'll be able to find my
way back here....

 

[Peter Jamieson]

Word Tools|Macro|Visual Basic Editor

There must be
something that I inadvertently clicked that I don't usually touch.

Always possible but there may well be other causes I'm not aware of.