Disabling the "View Shortcuts" Programmatically

[WebMasterP]

Hi everyone,

I have a requirement to get rid of the "View Options" part of the status
bar. I realize I can hide it by right clicking the tool bar and then
unchecking "View Options", but that's not what I'm looking for.

The UI for this very specialized app that uses Word 2007 has been completely
re-written from scratch and it doesn't use any of the default Ribbons.

The requirement is to find a way to hide the View Options on the Status Bar
on the bottom of the window programmatically so that the user can't see them
on startup and hopefully can't re-enable them. But I'll start with just
having them hidden on start.

Another option was proposed that we could hide the bar and remove the show
bar options (that's already been done because of the stripped UI) and then
re-build our own bar. However, I can't find an API where we can get the
other information that's on the bottom of the bar (current page of total
pages, words, and the zoom bar).

I've been searching all day and was hoping someone could point me in the
right direction.

Thanks!

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?V2ViTWFzdGVyUA==?=,

The status bar, like the Mini Toolbar and the Ribbon's built-in groups, aren't
exposed to the developer. That's not to say that, manipulating the Windows API
at a very deep level you can't get at them (and no, I don't know how to do it).
But it's not something the object model exposes.

I have a requirement to get rid of the "View Options" part of the status
bar. I realize I can hide it by right clicking the tool bar and then
unchecking "View Options", but that's not what I'm looking for.

The UI for this very specialized app that uses Word 2007 has been completely
re-written from scratch and it doesn't use any of the default Ribbons.

The requirement is to find a way to hide the View Options on the Status Bar
on the bottom of the window programmatically so that the user can't see them
on startup and hopefully can't re-enable them. But I'll start with just
having them hidden on start.

Another option was proposed that we could hide the bar and remove the show
bar options (that's already been done because of the stripped UI) and then
re-build our own bar. However, I can't find an API where we can get the
other information that's on the bottom of the bar (current page of total
pages, words, and the zoom bar).

I've been searching all day and was hoping someone could point me in the
right direction.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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