Toolbars - how to kill them?

[aaJoe]

So I open a document to read or edit and the PDF toolbar pops up. Or
something else pops up. I get rid of it, but this program doesn't
remember that. Is there a way of controlling these infernal things? I
want to set it so no toolbar EVER comes up automatically. Why does Word
think it knows what I need? All I want is to have a document open as
big as possible, all the time, with absolutely nothing in the way
wasting screen space. If I need toolbar (which is extremely rare) I can
always bring it up manually.

 

[Michel Bintener]

So I open a document to read or edit and the PDF toolbar pops up. Or
something else pops up. I get rid of it, but this program doesn't
remember that. Is there a way of controlling these infernal things? I
want to set it so no toolbar EVER comes up automatically. Why does Word
think it knows what I need? All I want is to have a document open as
big as possible, all the time, with absolutely nothing in the way
wasting screen space. If I need toolbar (which is extremely rare) I can
always bring it up manually.

The Adobe PDF toolbar is not created by Word, but by Adobe Acrobat. Acrobat
installs these (rather useless, on the Mac at least) plug-ins and, worst of
all, doesn't give you an option to turn it off. Follow the instructions on
this website to get rid of it permanently:

http://www.mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/office/pdftoolbar.html

As for other toolbars, they are all stored in the template on which your
document is based. You might want to have a look at this website as well to
see how to customise templates:

http://word.mvps.org/mac/UsingWord-macIndex.html#Templates

 

[Elliott Roper]

So I open a document to read or edit and the PDF toolbar pops up. Or
something else pops up. I get rid of it, but this program doesn't
remember that. Is there a way of controlling these infernal things? I
want to set it so no toolbar EVER comes up automatically. Why does Word
think it knows what I need? All I want is to have a document open as
big as possible, all the time, with absolutely nothing in the way
wasting screen space. If I need toolbar (which is extremely rare) I can
always bring it up manually.

Someone after my own heart!

The Adobe one is a special case. If you have installed Acrobat or
Acrobat Reader, then Adobe leaves some evil stuff in Office startup
items to keep bringing the little horrids up. And it keeps putting them
back whenever you take them out.

John McGhie's post of 27 Dec 2004 in this group entitled "Adobe
Toolbar" explains why and how to fix it.

No, I don't have a prodigious memory. Google Groups is your friend.
The discussion that followed it is worth reading too.

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.word/browse_f
rm/thread/6a9a6e6b3ddfdce8/3bf04ac09d4d5956?lnk=st&q=adobe+toolbar+group
%3Amicrosoft.public.mac.office.word&rnum=1&hl=en#3bf04ac09d4d5956

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Oh, Word should remember the way you like your other toolbars.

 

[aaJoe]

http://www.mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/office/pdftoolbar.html

Nothing like chopping a problem off at the head! Many thanks.