Acrobat 5 and Word 2000 Toolbar Question

[Shane V]

I was just given Adobe's Acrobat 5 to create PDF files from Word documents.
Now when I open Word there is an extra toolbar and it has two buttons (Make
a PDF and Make/E-mail a PDF). So I customized my toolbars and moved those
buttons over to my 'regular' Word toolbar, then disabled the 'Acrobat 5.0'
toolbar and it went away.
The problem is that it keeps coming back (though I still have those two
buttons on my regular word toolbar). I tried saving as "normal.dot" hoping
that this is where it lives, but received a message about not being able to
make changes to a 'file in use'. I DID find a couple of ".dot" files that
were "PDFWriter.dot" and 'PDFWriterA.dot" so I'm thinking this might be an
Adobe question, but I'll start here since it's a Word toolbar I'm trying to
customize.

Any ideas on how to get rid of the 'Acrobat 5.0' toolbar now that I have
those two buttons on my Word toolbar???

Thanks,
Shane

 

[Graham Mayor]

If you have the Acrobat 5 add-in loaded, you cannot get rid of its toolbar.
You can, however, park it next to the standard toolbar, if you have the
standard and formatting toolbars on two lines. So keep the Acrobat toolbar
and remove the entries from your own.
The Acrobat add-in is password protected so you cannot change its behaviour.
If you remove the add-in you lose functionality when making PDFs from Word.
PDFMaker.dot should be in the Office startup folder, which for Word 2002 is
:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\Startup

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[Shane V]

Graham,
Why thank you.. you've even answered the question I DIDN"T ask which
was why I kept getting a message box about 'protected' things and I'm not
allowed to change them.

OK.. if that's how the system works, I'll go with it. At least I know
it's not anything I'm doing.

Shane
If you have the Acrobat 5 add-in loaded, you cannot get rid of its toolbar.
You can, however, park it next to the standard toolbar, if you have the
standard and formatting toolbars on two lines. So keep the Acrobat toolbar
and remove the entries from your own.
The Acrobat add-in is password protected so you cannot change its behaviour.
If you remove the add-in you lose functionality when making PDFs from Word.
PDFMaker.dot should be in the Office startup folder, which for Word 2002 is
:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\Startup

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP
E-mail (e-mail address removed)
Web site www.gmayor.dsl.pipex.com
Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word
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