Reviewing toolbar won't go away

[janeherenow]

Recently, every time I open a Word document, I get both my standard
toolbar and the reviewing toolbar. I looked in Preferences and tried
Help, but nothing I've changed in either affects this(although I found
some other useful options). this is not a serious problem, but takes
up unneeded screen space and is annoying. How can I make it go away?

iBook G4 with latest update of OSX, Office 2004

Thanks!

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Are these new docs or existing docs?

The reviewing toolbar will automatically show up if you open a doc that
has existing comments/track changes (I think you can kill that too, but
I forget whether it takes trouble to re-activate later).

If it's showing up for new docs, try just turning if off via View |
Toolbars and Word ought to remember what you want. If that doesn't work,
open up your Normal template, turn it off there, type and delete
something to make Word believe the Normal template needs to be saved,
save and close Normal. If that's not enough, there are other things you
can do.

Your Normal template (unless you moved it), should be in
username/documents/microsoft user data/

 

[little_creature]

Are these new docs or existing docs?

The reviewing toolbar will automatically show up if you open a doc that
has existing comments/track changes (I think you can kill that too, but
I forget whether it takes trouble to re-activate later).

Here are the macros for disable and also enable, I'm on PC so I cannot
check it, but can someone on MAC check it, please?
to Disable, put this macro in your normal template, but it will
disable the toolbar in all documents, so you will have to switch it on
manually when you need it or see below:
Sub AutoExec()
With CommandBars("Reviewing")
.Enabled = False
.Visible = False
End With
End Sub

to Enable it again:
Sub EnableReviewingToolbar()
With CommandBars("Reviewing")
.Enabled = True
.Visible = True
End With
End Sub
[http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=221]

 

[janeherenow]

Are these new docs or existing docs?

They're existing docs created by someone else. Yes, I can turn off the
toolbar manually every time. I guess that's what I'm stuck with until
I finish referring to these docs. Thanks.

 

[John McGhie]

You could "Accept all changes" then save your document

That will kill it

They're existing docs created by someone else. Yes, I can turn off the
toolbar manually every time. I guess that's what I'm stuck with until
I finish referring to these docs. Thanks.

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[Daiya Mitchell]

They're existing docs created by someone else. Yes, I can turn off the
toolbar manually every time. I guess that's what I'm stuck with until
I finish referring to these docs. Thanks.

The macro in little_creature's post will kill it, even for docs with
changes, I think. See here for what to do with it.
http://word.mvps.org/Mac/InstallMacro.html

 

[John McGhie]

Yeah, it will, but it leaves the changes in the document.

It's the user's choice, of course: she didn't say she wanted to preserve
the changes, she just wants to get the toolbar outta her face

If she DOES want to preserve the marked changes, as you say, Little
Creature's macro is perfect.

Cheers

The macro in little_creature's post will kill it, even for docs with
changes, I think. See here for what to do with it.
http://word.mvps.org/Mac/InstallMacro.html

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