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Remove Acrobat toolbar from Office v.X applications
Authored by: gunnmjk on Nov 28, '03 06:19:48PM

Apparently this doesn't solve the problem. The next time Acrobat starts up, it'll bring up a dialoge asking to re install the toolsbars. Nomatter what you click, it will still re-install them. Somebody suggested creating blank documents with the same name, and locking them. When starting up Acrobat again, it asks for an administrator password, and proceeds to delete the locked documents (Bastards!). I've tried almost everything short of changing the Startup folder for office. Anybody have any other ideas?



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Remove Acrobat toolbar from Office v.X applications
Authored by: nbusis on Nov 29, '03 03:21:24AM

To keep from reinstalling the PDF toolbars, when the dialog box pops up on Acrobat start-up, just uncheck the box that says "PDF Maker", check the box that says "don't show this again" and select the button that says "Okay."

If you ever want to reinstall the toolbars, or have the dialog box show up on start-up again, select "Detect and Repair" from the "Help" menu.



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Remove Acrobat toolbar from Office v.X applications
Authored by: monickels on Nov 29, '03 03:01:03PM
To keep from reinstalling the PDF toolbars, when the dialog box pops up on Acrobat start-up, just uncheck the box that says "PDF Maker", check the box that says "don't show this again" and select the button that says "Okay."

Sorry, but unchecking the box in the dialog does not always work, either. As mentioned elsewhere, the best solution is to replace the macro files with locked folders. They are located in /Applications/Microsoft Office X/Office/Startup/, where you will find three folders, one each for Word, Excel and PowerPoint. In each of these files will be a file called PDFMaker, follwed with the appropriate suffix, .dot, .xla, and .ppa resepectively. Replace them with locked folders of the same names.

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Remove Acrobat toolbar from Office v.X applications
Authored by: mricart on Nov 29, '03 03:41:46AM

Personally, I've put *folder* in place of the PDF files inside the "Microsoft Office X" folder. More precisely:
- in "Microsoft Office X" folder: I've put a "PDFMakerLib" folder
- in "Microsoft Office X/Office/Startup" folder: there are 3 folders ("Excel", "PowerPoint", "Word"), and Acrobat puts a file in each (respectively "PDFMaker.xla", "PDFMaker.ppa", "PDFMaker.dot"): I've replaced again each of them with a *folder* with the same name

Those folders are empty, but that's enough to prevent Acrobat to replace them (I guess it's because "unlink()" doesn't work on folders, for which "rmdir()" must be used).

Hope this helps.



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