Can't Customize Word's Toolbars

bfarr112 · External Since: May 23, 2005 Posts: 6

I'm working in a W2K/Office 2003 environment and am not able to customize my
toolbar in Word. I'm able to customize my Outlook, Excel, and PPT ones, but
not this one. I've gone through the KB and looked for the fixes and have
tried them all (renaming Normal.dot, renaming the registry entries, logging
in as an admin, removing and reinstalling Word) but none of them have worked.
Is there something that I'm missing? If you have any ideas, I'd be happy to
hear them!

Suzanne S. Barnhill · External Since: Sep 26, 2003 Posts: 24065

Can't customize or can't save customizations?

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"bfarr112" <bfarr112 RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:53DBCA2F-8AFA-49AA-B0FE-83F4FB1FD147@microsoft.com...
> I'm working in a W2K/Office 2003 environment and am not able to customize
my
> toolbar in Word. I'm able to customize my Outlook, Excel, and PPT ones,
but
> not this one. I've gone through the KB and looked for the fixes and have
> tried them all (renaming Normal.dot, renaming the registry entries,
logging
> in as an admin, removing and reinstalling Word) but none of them have
worked.
> Is there something that I'm missing? If you have any ideas, I'd be happy
to
> hear them!

bfarr112 · External Since: May 23, 2005 Posts: 6

Sorry about that. I can customize the toolbar fine but when I close Word,
the changes don't save.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

> Can't customize or can't save customizations?
>
> --
> Suzanne S. Barnhill
> Microsoft MVP (Word)
> Words into Type
> Fairhope, Alabama USA
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> Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
> all may benefit.

Daiya Mitchell · External Since: Oct 07, 2004 Posts: 1071

If you have Acrobat 7 installed, see the last section of this page:
http://gmayor.com/lose_that_adobe_acrobat_toolbar.htm

On 7/5/05 2:09 PM, "bfarr112" wrote:

> Sorry about that. I can customize the toolbar fine but when I close Word,
> the changes don't save.
>
>
> "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
>
>> Can't customize or can't save customizations?
>>

Suzanne S. Barnhill · External Since: Sep 26, 2003 Posts: 24065

If you have Acrobat 7 installed, see the last section of
http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adobe_acrobat_toolbar.htm

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"bfarr112" <bfarr112.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Sorry about that. I can customize the toolbar fine but when I close Word,
> the changes don't save.
>
>
> "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
>
> > Can't customize or can't save customizations?
> >
> > --
> > Suzanne S. Barnhill
> > Microsoft MVP (Word)
> > Words into Type
> > Fairhope, Alabama USA
> > Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
> > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so
> > all may benefit.
>

bfarr112 · External Since: May 23, 2005 Posts: 6

Thanks for the help! The fix outlined on the site worked great!

Bod · External Since: Jun 16, 2005 Posts: 38

Hi. Thanks - that's a great link.
I tried the one in Control Panel - changed Acrobat so it doesn't come up in
Outlook.
In Excel, when I customize toolbars and uncheck the Adcrobat toolbar, when I
next opened Excel I got an error message (twice) but only that time - fixed.
In Word there is an Acrobat menu. It doesn't work - it's still there but
the buttons don't work. Any ideas.
I am still figuring out what method to use to avoid the toolbar in Word
(all my toolbars are at the bottom of the screen, and the Acrobat one always
appears at the top on it own) (I don't mind the menu).

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

> If you have Acrobat 7 installed, see the last section of
> http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adobe_acrobat_toolbar.htm
>
> --
> Suzanne S. Barnhill
> Microsoft MVP (Word)

Bod · External Since: Jun 16, 2005 Posts: 38

Ah, somehow the toolbar is not coming up in Word now - just need to try to
get the Acrobat menu functionality back if you can suggest anything, please.

"Bod" wrote:

> Hi. Thanks - that's a great link.
> I tried the one in Control Panel - changed Acrobat so it doesn't come up in
> Outlook.
> In Excel, when I customize toolbars and uncheck the Adcrobat toolbar, when I
> next opened Excel I got an error message (twice) but only that time - fixed.
> In Word there is an Acrobat menu. It doesn't work - it's still there but
> the buttons don't work. Any ideas.
> I am still figuring out what method to use to avoid the toolbar in Word
> (all my toolbars are at the bottom of the screen, and the Acrobat one always
> appears at the top on it own) (I don't mind the menu).
>
> "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
>
> > If you have Acrobat 7 installed, see the last section of
> > http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adobe_acrobat_toolbar.htm
> >
> > --
> > Suzanne S. Barnhill
> > Microsoft MVP (Word)

Bod · External Since: Jun 16, 2005 Posts: 38

Ha! Having found another post that pointed to
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/330/330984.html
I tried Help - About - Disabled Add-ins and Enabled the Adobe one.
That caused some "serious errors".

I renamed my Normal.dot and hey presto, everything's back and working.
Now I have to put all my Normal.dot stuff back as I like it...

"Bod" wrote:

> Ah, somehow the toolbar is not coming up in Word now - just need to try to
> get the Acrobat menu functionality back if you can suggest anything, please.
>
> "Bod" wrote:
>
> > Hi. Thanks - that's a great link.
> > I tried the one in Control Panel - changed Acrobat so it doesn't come up in
> > Outlook.
> > In Excel, when I customize toolbars and uncheck the Adcrobat toolbar, when I
> > next opened Excel I got an error message (twice) but only that time - fixed.
> > In Word there is an Acrobat menu. It doesn't work - it's still there but
> > the buttons don't work. Any ideas.
> > I am still figuring out what method to use to avoid the toolbar in Word
> > (all my toolbars are at the bottom of the screen, and the Acrobat one always
> > appears at the top on it own) (I don't mind the menu).
> >
> > "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
> >
> > > If you have Acrobat 7 installed, see the last section of
> > > http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adobe_acrobat_toolbar.htm
> > >
> > > --
> > > Suzanne S. Barnhill
> > > Microsoft MVP (Word)

Graham Mayor · External Since: Jul 04, 2006 Posts: 4677

It is the early version of Acrobat 7 that is problematical with Word. If you
apply the updates available for that version, it works fine.
You cannot have the fulll functionality available from Acrobat if you
disable the add-in. If you do that you may as well save your money and
install a free clone like PrimoPDF.

Set your Word toolbars to display on two rows and park the adobe toolbar at
the end of one or other row. It takes up half an inch of toolbar space.

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Bod wrote:
> Ah, somehow the toolbar is not coming up in Word now - just need to
> try to get the Acrobat menu functionality back if you can suggest
> anything, please.
>
> "Bod" wrote:
>
>> Hi. Thanks - that's a great link.
>> I tried the one in Control Panel - changed Acrobat so it doesn't
>> come up in Outlook.
>> In Excel, when I customize toolbars and uncheck the Adcrobat
>> toolbar, when I next opened Excel I got an error message (twice) but
>> only that time - fixed. In Word there is an Acrobat menu. It
>> doesn't work - it's still there but the buttons don't work. Any
>> ideas.
>> I am still figuring out what method to use to avoid the toolbar in
>> Word (all my toolbars are at the bottom of the screen, and the
>> Acrobat one always appears at the top on it own) (I don't mind the
>> menu).
>>
>> "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
>>
>>> If you have Acrobat 7 installed, see the last section of
>>> http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adobe_acrobat_toolbar.htm
>>>
>>> --
>>> Suzanne S. Barnhill
>>> Microsoft MVP (Word)