Turn off reviewing toolbar permanently?

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone here knew how to disable the
reviewing toolbar from being displayed by default in Office
XP apps? I know how to make it disappear by right-clicking
on the toolbar and de-selecting it, but I was wondering if
there was an option to disable it from appearing
automagically? That is, I never want the reviewing toolbar
to appear when I open a document (even one that someone
else sends me) unless I specifically want it to.

Any help that you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[Greg Maxey]

A,

I use an AutoOpen macro to turn it off. The macro I use
is as follows:

Sub AutoOpen()
'The following sets the view:
ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdPrintView
ActiveWindow.View.Zoom.PageFit = wdPageFitBestFit'End If
'The following three lines turn off annoying toolbars:
CommandBars("Reviewing").Visible = False
CommandBars("Mail Merge").Visible = False
CommandBars("Forms").Visible = False
'The following subroutine updates all fields:
Dim oStory As Range
For Each oStory In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges
oStory.Fields.Update
If oStory.StoryType < wdMainTextStory Then
While Not (oStory.NextStoryRange Is Nothing)
Set oStory = oStory.NextStoryRange
oStory.Fields.Update
Wend
End If
Next oStory
Set oStory = Nothing
End Sub

 

[Anonymous]

Greg,

Thanks a million! That works perfectly! However, this
bugs me in Excel and in Powerpoint as well, and I haven't
had the same luck in adding the AutoOpen macro to Excel and
Powerpoint. Could you provide pointers as to how I might
do that?

I noticed that AutoOpen is Auto_Open in Excel, and I've
added an Auto_Open macro to my PERSONAL.XLS worksheet in my
XLSTART folder, but it doesn't appear to be executing when
I open other .XLS files. The macro seems to be associated
with PERSONAL.XLS only.

And I've looked into Powerpoint, but don't have a clue how
to get this paradigm to work in Powerpoint. Any suggestions?

Thanks for your help!

 

[Greg Maxey]

A,

Glad you are happy with the Word solution. I don't dabble
with Excel or PowerPoint enough to offer any concrete
solutions. You might see if there is a way to record
macros in either application and then just record the
steps to open a file and close the reviewing tool bar.
That is the best I can offer. Another option is to post
in the Excel or Powerpoint Groups.

 

[Anonymous]

I'm going to try posting in the Excel and Powerpoint groups
like you suggested. Thanks again Greg.