How do you remove the ODF Toolbar?

[Victor Delta]

I recently downloaded and installed the Sun ODF Plug-in 1.1 for Microsoft
Office from http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/index.jsp - this
gives Word, Excel and PowerPoint the ability to read, edit and save to the
ISO-standard Open Document Format (ODF).

After installation, Word, Excel and PowerPoint all gain a new 'Sun ODF
Plug-in' toolbar. However, whilst the toolbars in Word and Excel are well
behaved and can be hidden (and stay hidden) by unticking the appropriate
item on the View, Toolbars menu, the ODF toolbar in PowerPoint irritatingly
keeps coming back every time one reopens the application.

I thought I might be able to get rid of it by deselecting or removing the
appropriate add-in, but it always keeps coming back to haunt me!

Does anyone know how to get rid of it once and for all (whilst leaving the
plug-in's functionality).

I suppose an appropriate auto_open macro might do the job, but is there a
simpler way?

By the way, I am using PowerPoint 2002/XP.

V

 

[Austin Myers]

I would suggest you ask Sun, they would know more about the add-in than
anyone here.



Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com

 

[Victor Delta]

I would suggest you ask Sun, they would know more about the add-in than
anyone here.
Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Yes, ok, but I was just hoping that someone in this PowerPoint community
might have already found a simple solution to this problem.

V

 

[Austin Myers]

I hear ya but I don't think many here are using ODF for anything.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I recently downloaded and installed the Sun ODF Plug-in 1.1 for Microsoft
Office from http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/index.jsp - this
gives Word, Excel and PowerPoint the ability to read, edit and save to the
ISO-standard Open Document Format (ODF).

After installation, Word, Excel and PowerPoint all gain a new 'Sun ODF
Plug-in' toolbar. However, whilst the toolbars in Word and Excel are well
behaved and can be hidden (and stay hidden) by unticking the appropriate
item on the View, Toolbars menu, the ODF toolbar in PowerPoint irritatingly
keeps coming back every time one reopens the application.

I thought I might be able to get rid of it by deselecting or removing the
appropriate add-in, but it always keeps coming back to haunt me!

Do you want to get rid of the addin or just the toolbar?

If the latter, you could, as you've suggested, write another add-in that does
nothing more than delete the Sun add-in's toolbar in its auto-open sub. That
would work, so long as the Sun add-in loads only at PPT startup.

 

[Victor Delta]

Do you want to get rid of the addin or just the toolbar?

If the latter, you could, as you've suggested, write another add-in that
does
nothing more than delete the Sun add-in's toolbar in its auto-open sub.
That
would work, so long as the Sun add-in loads only at PPT startup.

Steve

Thanks for your helpful response. Only want to get rid of the toolbar
really...

Actually I've now written a basic macro that seems to work when I run it:

With CommandBars("Sun ODF Plugin") .Enabled = False

However, it only seems possible to save it in a particular presentation
file.

Is there a way to record a macro so that it runs automatically when
PowerPoint is opened. There are facilities to do this in Word and Excel - so
surely it's possible in PPT?

TIA

V

 

[Victor Delta]

Is there a way to record a macro so that it runs automatically when
PowerPoint is opened. There are facilities to do this in Word and Excel -
so surely it's possible in PPT?

Found the answer to this myself with a bit of Googling.

I created the following macro:

Sub Auto_Open()
'
' AutoOpen Macro
' Macro recorded 6/5/2005 by V
'
With CommandBars("Sun ODF Plugin")
.Enabled = True
.Visible = False
End With

End Sub

and then saved it as 'Disable ODF Toolbar.ppa' file. Then I added it to the
list of add-ins.

When PowerPoint opens the add-in macro runs and makes the ODF Toolbar
vanish.

Mission accomplished!

V

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Nicely done. Ya beat me to it.

V for Victor(y)

Found the answer to this myself with a bit of Googling.

I created the following macro:

Sub Auto_Open()
'
' AutoOpen Macro
' Macro recorded 6/5/2005 by V
'
With CommandBars("Sun ODF Plugin")
.Enabled = True
.Visible = False
End With

End Sub

and then saved it as 'Disable ODF Toolbar.ppa' file. Then I added it to the
list of add-ins.

When PowerPoint opens the add-in macro runs and makes the ODF Toolbar
vanish.

Mission accomplished!

V