customizing toolbars (word 2003)

[Guest]

Hi!

I have a problem with customizing toolbars: I can customize it normally
(adding or taking away the buttons), all works fine, but then when I close
the Word (2003) and open it again, it is as no customization was done (it
doesn't remember it)! How can I fix it?

oh, in other office programs, like excel or outlook, it remembers the
customization of the toolbars

Thank you for your help!

Lily

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Do you have Acrobat 7 installed? If so, see the very last section of
http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adobe_acrobat_toolbar.htm

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Words into Type
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[Guest]

Thank you! It worked!!!

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Until you get Adobe to actually write working software that doesn't mess up
Word, you may want to keep your customizations in a separate global
template. Perhaps even after they stop making Word not work. See
http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm for step-by-step instructions
on moving / sharing / copying / backing-up customizations including
AutoText, AutoCorrect, keyboard assignments, toolbars, macros, etc.
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Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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[Guest]

I had the problem with Acrobat 6 Pro that the header of every one of my
MSWord 2003 documents would be disorganized by a toolbar offering the Acrobat
functions. The toolbar duplicated what was offered in the drop-down menu,
and it made the Word screen smaller. And generally it upset me by bollixing
up format.

I went to a site called Betalogue and found that smarter people than I were
also vexed at this problem. In any case, those folks told me to go to the
"MicroSoft Office" folder among the Program files and, inside that, find a
folder for "Office" (which in my machine is the "Office11" folder), and
further inside that find a "Start-up" folder. Inside the "Start-up" folder
there's a file called "PDFMaker.dot" that governs what toolbars are
available on the top MSWord documents when you open them. I found that by
creating a folder named "PDFMaker.dot" in the "Start-up" folder and by
putting the "PDFMaker.dot" file in the folder of the same name, then I could
get rid of the unpleasant Acrobat6 toolbars in my Word documents.

Put file "PDFMaker.dot" back in "Start-up" folder, and the Acrobat functions
become visible again at the top of every newly opened Word document.

Hope this is in some way relevant to your problem

 

[Guest]

Hello, I had the exactly the same problem Lily had, but I only have Acrobat
6. Can anyone help me?????

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adobe_acrobat_toolbar.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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