toolbars reinitialize

[guif]

My system: Windows XP Pro SP2. I use Word 2003 as part of Office 2003 Pro.

I upgraded to Win SP2 recently, and a problem appeared at roughly the same
time: if I customize my toolbars, they reinitialize after I restart Word, to
the way it was when I opened it after first installation.

The same goes with Shortcut keys.

If you have an answser, thanks in advance.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Do you have Acrobat 7 installed?

 

[guif]

Yes, I have Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional. As a result, I also have the
PDFMaker 7.0 add-in and the corresponding toolbar.

 

[guif]

Do you have Acrobat 7 installed?

 

[TF]

Adobe! It is a clever Adobe bug that inhibits Word from saving normal.dot.

There's a rough workaround: edit the Windows registry. You need to find the
key
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Word\Addins\PDFMaker.OfficeAddin]

and change the subkey called "LoadBehavior" from a value of 3 to 0




: Yes, I have Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional. As a result, I also have the
: PDFMaker 7.0 add-in and the corresponding toolbar.

 

[guif]

I just saw the thread on http://www.mcse.ms/message1468379.html , where you
answered a person with the same problem, so I won't make you write the
solution another time. Thank you for answering me, it helped a lot.

 

[guif]

Thanks a lot: my problem evaporated... but so did PDFMaker. You really think
Adobe would have developped something efficient for such an important task,
wouldn't you? Well, maybe next time.

Thanks again.

 

[TF]

Well previous version of Acrobat caused Word to save normal.dot everytime
Word was closed - even though no changes were made to the global template.
Their answer is to stop Word from ever saving changes to the global
template!

Terry

: Thanks a lot: my problem evaporated... but so did PDFMaker. You really
think
: Adobe would have developped something efficient for such an important
task,
: wouldn't you? Well, maybe next time.
:
: Thanks again.
:
: "TF" wrote:
:
: > Adobe! It is a clever Adobe bug that inhibits Word from saving
normal.dot.
: >
: > There's a rough workaround: edit the Windows registry. You need to find
the
: > key
: >
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Word\Addins\PDFMaker.OfficeAddin]
: >
: > and change the subkey called "LoadBehavior" from a value of 3 to 0
: >
: > --
: > Terry Farrell - Word MVP
:
: >
: >
: > : > : Yes, I have Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional. As a result, I also have the
: > : PDFMaker 7.0 add-in and the corresponding toolbar.
: >
: >
: >

 

[Beth Melton]

If you actually use the Adobe add-in then change the Registry back.
Then if you make changes to your Normal.dot you need to hold the Shift
key, open the File menu and select "Save All" to force changes to the
Normal.dot to be saved.

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Thanks a lot: my problem evaporated... but so did PDFMaker. You
really think
Adobe would have developped something efficient for such an
important task,
wouldn't you? Well, maybe next time.

Thanks again.

Adobe! It is a clever Adobe bug that inhibits Word from saving
normal.dot.

There's a rough workaround: edit the Windows registry. You need to
find the
key
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Word\Addins\PDFMaker.OfficeAddin]

and change the subkey called "LoadBehavior" from a value of 3 to 0

--
Terry Farrell - Word MVP



: Yes, I have Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional. As a result, I also
have the
: PDFMaker 7.0 add-in and the corresponding toolbar.