Adobe PDF toolbar on Word 2004 - turning on/off & toolbar location

[Tony]

Hi,

Adobe PDF toolbar on Word 2004 - turning on/off & toolbar location.

Note: I have installed Acrobat 6.0.1 Professional.

1 - After turning off "View/Toolbars/Adobe Acrobat PDF Maker", every
time that I quit and open Word 2004 on Mac OS X 10.3.5 it reappears
again.

Is there a way to turn it off other than removing the Adobe files at

"/Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Startup"?

I mean, I would like to turn off such toolbar and turn it on whenever I
want, as I do with other toolbars.

2 - Besides, the Adobe PDF toolbar does not behave: if I place it after
the Standard and Formatting toolbar on a large widescreen, it re-places
itself below the Standard toolbar every time that I open Word 2004,
thus taking unnecessary screen area vertically (since there is enough
space for it horizontally after the Formatting toolbar).

Any idea most welcome.

Thanks.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Hi,

Adobe PDF toolbar on Word 2004 - turning on/off & toolbar location.

Take a look at this post from the archives:

http://google.com/groups?threadm=BD514817.1D46%REMOVETHISoffice@ANDTH
ISstrategists.com.au

 

[Tony]

JE McGimpsey,

Thanks. When I try to get to that link I get:

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Message id or article number BD514817.1D46%REMOVETHISoffice@ANDTH not found.
Unable to find thread. Please recheck the URL.
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Doing a search on Google Groups I go to

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<http://www.google.com/groups?hl=en&...BB761834.1C9B%25gevantry%40nirai.ne.jp&rnum=2>
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From:

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From: Ron Stephens ([email protected])
Subject: PDF Toolbar

Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.word Date: 2003-08-29 12:22:33
PST No matter how many times I close the PDF toolbar, it reapprears
when I launch Word. I have clicked the close box, unchecked it in the
toolbar list, and even deleted it from the toolbar list - but it
reappears every time. I', saving the changes to "Normal", so why does
the PDF toolbar keep reappearing?

R. Stephens
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The toolbar appears because you have the PDFMaker.dot file in
/Applciations/Microsoft Office X/Office/Startup/Word folder.

Removing it from there will allow you to launch Office without seing
the toolbar again. Unfortunately, the next time you launch Acrobat or
Distiller, it will reinstall it.... There is an option not to reinstall
it but so far, the application ignored my preferences every single time
and keeps on reinstalling the .dot file.....
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If the Adobe PDF toolbar extension is in your applications' start-up
folders, whenever you launch one of the apps the PDF toolbar will
appear. It doesn't matter what you do elsewhere. Start-up items in the
Start-up folders "start up" because that what they are supposed to do.
Move the toolbar extensions from the start-up folders, and this
behavior should stop.

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But what to do to allow switching it on/off from the
"View/Toolbars/Adobe Acrobat PDFMaker"?

I do not want to delete it from the Toolbar menu. I want the toolbar
show only when I activate it to show on the toolbart. Just like the
other toolbars.

Thanks.

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[JE McGimpsey]

Message id or article number BD514817.1D46%REMOVETHISoffice@ANDTH not found.
Unable to find thread. Please recheck the URL.

The URL is fine. It starts at "http://" and ends with ".au"

 

[Tony]

JE McGimpsey,

Oops!

You are right. The problem was that double clicking on my news reader
did not take the last part: "ISstrategists.com.au".

Anyway, that is a good workaround, although I guess we will have to
wait for an Adobe fix to make this Adobe Acrobat PDFMaker toolbar
behave, so that you can switch it off/on on the Word toolbar menu just
like any other toolbar.

Thanks for your help.

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[Gene van Troyer]

Anyway, that is a good workaround, although I guess we will have to
wait for an Adobe fix to make this Adobe Acrobat PDFMaker toolbar
behave, so that you can switch it off/on on the Word toolbar menu just
like any other toolbar.

Don't hold your breath. This has been a problem since Acrobat 5 came out.

Gene van Troyer

 

[Tony]

Gene,

I know...

Check out

http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/324494.html

I guess we should feedback about this to both Microsoft and Adobe. Each
one says it is the other's fault...

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[Tony]

Update: also this for Mac:

http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/32ca2.htm

But Adobe does not seem to understand that:

1 - We do not want to disable the Acrobat PDFMaker toolbar. We want to
be able to activate-disable it at will.

2 - We want the Adobe Acrobat PDFMaker toolbar to behave and remember
the screen area location were we place it (other than the top on the
left of the screen corner or below it).

Those pages contain links to send feedback to Adobe:

....
Tell us what you think about this document.
....

That is

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[metturman]

Its too bad Adobe thinks they can intrude and force them selves on to
their users screen. This work around basically removes Acrobat from
the screen and make it difficult for us to use them. Adobe ends up
loosing for their mistakes.

 

[Gene van Troyer]

Its too bad Adobe thinks they can intrude and force them selves on to
their users screen. This work around basically removes Acrobat from
the screen and make it difficult for us to use them. Adobe ends up
loosing for their mistakes.

I don't disagree, but I think Adobe thinks they are doing us a favor, or at
least providing a convenience to make it easier for users to activate their
PDF software. Unfortunately, they haven't thought it through.

Who else do we know who does this with Word, hmmm? Altogether
now...M-I-C...R-O-S...O-F-T...

Well, not enough letters to match the old Mickey Mouse Show's theme song...

Gene van Troyer