Document Starts in Design Mode every time I open it

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Colin Higbie

I have a 37 page Word document I open in Word 2003 (up to date on patches).
The only non-universal elements in it are:

TOC
Embedded Pictures which are linked to an Excel file
Embedded Pictures which are not linked to anything

Other than those items, it's just a plain Word document using 3 fonts (all in
their respective heading Styles, as recommended, and not applied directly to
the text) and no other special formatting.

Every time I open it, the Control Toolbox also opens and so does another
toolbar with a single icon - "Exit Design Mode" (the Design Mode toggle
button). Why does it launch into Design Mode and how do I make this stop? When
I open the document, I don't want to have to close a couple of toolbars every
time that I have no intention of using.

There are no controls in the document. I have searched the help and there's
not much on Design Mode, certainly nothing that would explain why a document
might suddenly start defaulting to being in Design Mode.

Any help or insight would be most appreciated.

Thanks,
Colin
 
We have loads of docs opening this way. We could not solve it. We ran a macro as follows in an attempt to permanently kill those toolbars, as we did not see a need for folks to use those two toolbars:

Sub Macro1 ()
CommandBars("Control Toolbox").Enabled = False
CommandBars("Exit Design Mode").Enabled = False
End Sub

So far, they have not returned....
 
Hi Colin,

The most apparent reason is that the document contains (or once contained)
macros and/or ActiveX elements inserted from this toolbar. This triggers macro
security, and if that is set to "High" you'll get the behavior you report.

You might also try searching the Knowledge Base at microsoft.com on
Wd2003 AND "Control Toolbox"

There was an issue in Word 2002, described here, that required a hotfix. Perhaps
there's a related issue with 2003, I don't know

http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=822528
I have a 37 page Word document I open in Word 2003 (up to date on patches).
The only non-universal elements in it are:

TOC
Embedded Pictures which are linked to an Excel file
Embedded Pictures which are not linked to anything

Other than those items, it's just a plain Word document using 3 fonts (all in
their respective heading Styles, as recommended, and not applied directly to
the text) and no other special formatting.

Every time I open it, the Control Toolbox also opens and so does another
toolbar with a single icon - "Exit Design Mode" (the Design Mode toggle
button). Why does it launch into Design Mode and how do I make this stop? When
I open the document, I don't want to have to close a couple of toolbars every
time that I have no intention of using.
Click to expand...

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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I had recorded a macro to automate pasting the linked graphics, which I had
since forgotten about. Removing it stopped the problem. Thanks!

However, I must say that I have used macros and VBA code before without ever
seeing the Control Box appear every time I opened a the document containing
the macro. It must be limited to certain macro functions? Maybe because this
was pasting an OLE object? Curious...

- Colin
 
Hi Colin,
I had recorded a macro to automate pasting the linked graphics, which I had
since forgotten about. Removing it stopped the problem. Thanks!

However, I must say that I have used macros and VBA code before without ever
seeing the Control Box appear every time I opened a the document containing
the macro. It must be limited to certain macro functions? Maybe because this
was pasting an OLE object? Curious...
Click to expand...
It can also depend on the location of the macro. If it's in a template, and
that template is in a "trusted" location (that would be the Templates folder
or Word's startup folder), then the macro security also won't trigger.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or
reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)
 
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