How to kill floating toolbar - suddenly always appears

[Josh_T]

The most annoying thing began happening yesterday. A floating "Control
Toolbox" is in the middle of my screen whenever I open a document in
Word, even if I just killed it in the current document. I right click
on that box and deselect that toolbar, either directly, or through the
customize item (the last one on list). It goes away for now, until I
reopen word, or open any other document with Word open. This is
making me crazy. I don't want any floating toolbars in my face, and
Word is refusing to remember I told it not to display it.

While I'm here I'd also like the PDF Maker 6.0 menu bar to stay GONE.
It's presence leaves less room for my to type. Word also refuses to
remember that I keep killing that one, too.

(Microsoft Word 2000, Windows XP Pro 2nd Ed.)

Thanks for any help.

 

[Bob I]

Sounds like you are battling the effects of the Adobe addon. Try hold
down shift key and then click File, Save All. (this does work in 2003 YMMV)

 

[Beth Melton]

If you are seeing a tiny Control Toolbox with a Design button then that
indicates a macro that is attempting to run when you open a document. By
default, Word Macro Security (Tools/Macro/Security) is set to "High" to
prevent macros from running due to the threat of macro viruses. So what you
are seeing is Word placing the document in Design view so the macro can not
run.

Even though can modify your Macro Security settings, you should first
determine what macro is attempting to run.

- Go to Tools/Macro/Macros and make sure "Macros in" reflects "All active
templates and documents".

- See if there are any macros named along the lines of "AutoOpen"

- Select the macro and see if the Edit or Delete command is available

- If it is then either Delete the macro or click "Edit" and place an "X" in
front of the macro name to prevent it from automatically running until you
can determine what the macro is actually doing

If delete is unavailable then chances are it is stored in a global
template. A global template is a template located in your Startup folder
that is automatically loaded when Word starts. You can find a list of these
under Tools/Templates and Add-Ins.

To determine which template, in the Macros dialog box, narrow down the list
of macros using "Macros in" at the bottom until you have determined what
template the macro is stored in.

Once you locate the template then either open the template and
delete/rename the macro or move the template out of the folder so it will
no longer load when Word starts.

Global templates are typically stored in your Word\Startup folder or
Office\Startup. Your Word\Startup folder can be determined by going to
Tools/Options/File Locations to verify this location. The Office\Startup
folder will be located in the installation path for Office.

Note that Adobe's PDFMaker template is likely in the Office Startup folder
and removing it from the folder will prevent it from loading when Word
starts.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged
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Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/9801.aspx#AboutTheBook

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[Graham Mayor]

For the control toolbox bar add the line
CommandBars("Control Toolbox").Visible = False
to both an autonew and an autoopen macro in normal.dot
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm
For the Adobe toolbar, see
http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adobe_acrobat_toolbar.htm

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