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Disable Acrobat in Word Temporarily
How can I disable/enable Acrobat 7 in Word 2002?
View/Tools only removes the PDFMaker toolbar, not the text commands in the main word toolbar. Templates and Add-Ins shows no add-ins. Adding/Deleting the COM add-in in the registry requires too many steps. Surely there ought to be a way to toggle Acrobat in Word, as there was in earlier versions. |
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Disable Acrobat in Word Temporarily
Previous Acrobat versions used a template add-in. Acrobat 7 uses a COM
add-in and is thus not accessible from the Templates and Add-ins dialog. You can make it available from the COM add-ins dialog, but I would caution against it. For more information see http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org DFT wrote: How can I disable/enable Acrobat 7 in Word 2002? View/Tools only removes the PDFMaker toolbar, not the text commands in the main word toolbar. Templates and Add-Ins shows no add-ins. Adding/Deleting the COM add-in in the registry requires too many steps. Surely there ought to be a way to toggle Acrobat in Word, as there was in earlier versions. |
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Disable Acrobat in Word Temporarily
I had read Graham Mayor's intelligent analysis "Lose that Adobe Acrobat
Toolbar" before I posted my question. If I understand him correctly, there is no safe way to turn Acrobat 7 on/off in Word now. (The toolbar can of course be turned off, but not the commands in the main menu.) Are we really stuck with the choice between removing it completely or having it there all the time? "Graham Mayor" wrote: Previous Acrobat versions used a template add-in. Acrobat 7 uses a COM add-in and is thus not accessible from the Templates and Add-ins dialog. You can make it available from the COM add-ins dialog, but I would caution against it. For more information see http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org DFT wrote: How can I disable/enable Acrobat 7 in Word 2002? View/Tools only removes the PDFMaker toolbar, not the text commands in the main word toolbar. Templates and Add-Ins shows no add-ins. Adding/Deleting the COM add-in in the registry requires too many steps. Surely there ought to be a way to toggle Acrobat in Word, as there was in earlier versions. |
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Disable Acrobat in Word Temporarily
As I explained in my last post and in detail on the web page, you can set
this by making a registry change, however as the web page explains this is not without some issues. The only alternative is to uninstall the add-in and reinstall it as required. Frankly I don't see the problem with having it running. You can turn off the toolbars if you like and you need the add-in to provide the full functionality of Acrobat from Word. I have noticed no difference in performance from Word with the add-in present. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org DFT wrote: I had read Graham Mayor's intelligent analysis "Lose that Adobe Acrobat Toolbar" before I posted my question. If I understand him correctly, there is no safe way to turn Acrobat 7 on/off in Word now. (The toolbar can of course be turned off, but not the commands in the main menu.) Are we really stuck with the choice between removing it completely or having it there all the time? "Graham Mayor" wrote: Previous Acrobat versions used a template add-in. Acrobat 7 uses a COM add-in and is thus not accessible from the Templates and Add-ins dialog. You can make it available from the COM add-ins dialog, but I would caution against it. For more information see http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org DFT wrote: How can I disable/enable Acrobat 7 in Word 2002? View/Tools only removes the PDFMaker toolbar, not the text commands in the main word toolbar. Templates and Add-Ins shows no add-ins. Adding/Deleting the COM add-in in the registry requires too many steps. Surely there ought to be a way to toggle Acrobat in Word, as there was in earlier versions. |
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I had tried the registry change, and had some of the "issues" you identified.
As you advised, this is not a safe way to go. The disadvantages of running Acrobat at least on my system are (1) Word loads somewhat more slowly; and (2) two commands with long text names are added to the main toolbar, causing it to expand into a second row. If I remove the commands by 'customize' they return the next time Word loads. There are greater problems in the world of Word, and so I'll stop bothering you and others with this one. Still, it would seem that Adobe ought to be more considerate of Word users. "Graham Mayor" wrote: As I explained in my last post and in detail on the web page, you can set this by making a registry change, however as the web page explains this is not without some issues. The only alternative is to uninstall the add-in and reinstall it as required. Frankly I don't see the problem with having it running. You can turn off the toolbars if you like and you need the add-in to provide the full functionality of Acrobat from Word. I have noticed no difference in performance from Word with the add-in present. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org DFT wrote: I had read Graham Mayor's intelligent analysis "Lose that Adobe Acrobat Toolbar" before I posted my question. If I understand him correctly, there is no safe way to turn Acrobat 7 on/off in Word now. (The toolbar can of course be turned off, but not the commands in the main menu.) Are we really stuck with the choice between removing it completely or having it there all the time? "Graham Mayor" wrote: Previous Acrobat versions used a template add-in. Acrobat 7 uses a COM add-in and is thus not accessible from the Templates and Add-ins dialog. You can make it available from the COM add-ins dialog, but I would caution against it. For more information see http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org DFT wrote: How can I disable/enable Acrobat 7 in Word 2002? View/Tools only removes the PDFMaker toolbar, not the text commands in the main word toolbar. Templates and Add-Ins shows no add-ins. Adding/Deleting the COM add-in in the registry requires too many steps. Surely there ought to be a way to toggle Acrobat in Word, as there was in earlier versions. |
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Disable Acrobat in Word Temporarily
You can change the way the toolbar displays the icons (there should only be
three tiny icons in Word) - tools customize right click and change the display to 'default'. You can get Word to give you more toolbar real estate by tools customize options, show standard and formatting toolbars on two rows. There is then plenty of room to park the toolbar (or just turn off the toolbar view toolbars). As for Adobe's relationship with Word users, you need to take that up with Adobe. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org DFT wrote: I had tried the registry change, and had some of the "issues" you identified. As you advised, this is not a safe way to go. The disadvantages of running Acrobat at least on my system are (1) Word loads somewhat more slowly; and (2) two commands with long text names are added to the main toolbar, causing it to expand into a second row. If I remove the commands by 'customize' they return the next time Word loads. There are greater problems in the world of Word, and so I'll stop bothering you and others with this one. Still, it would seem that Adobe ought to be more considerate of Word users. "Graham Mayor" wrote: As I explained in my last post and in detail on the web page, you can set this by making a registry change, however as the web page explains this is not without some issues. The only alternative is to uninstall the add-in and reinstall it as required. Frankly I don't see the problem with having it running. You can turn off the toolbars if you like and you need the add-in to provide the full functionality of Acrobat from Word. I have noticed no difference in performance from Word with the add-in present. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org DFT wrote: I had read Graham Mayor's intelligent analysis "Lose that Adobe Acrobat Toolbar" before I posted my question. If I understand him correctly, there is no safe way to turn Acrobat 7 on/off in Word now. (The toolbar can of course be turned off, but not the commands in the main menu.) Are we really stuck with the choice between removing it completely or having it there all the time? "Graham Mayor" wrote: Previous Acrobat versions used a template add-in. Acrobat 7 uses a COM add-in and is thus not accessible from the Templates and Add-ins dialog. You can make it available from the COM add-ins dialog, but I would caution against it. For more information see http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org DFT wrote: How can I disable/enable Acrobat 7 in Word 2002? View/Tools only removes the PDFMaker toolbar, not the text commands in the main word toolbar. Templates and Add-Ins shows no add-ins. Adding/Deleting the COM add-in in the registry requires too many steps. Surely there ought to be a way to toggle Acrobat in Word, as there was in earlier versions. |
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