[Pa-cellist]

How do I keep toolbars from opening automatically? Most of the time I don't
want them and they just clutter up the screen.

[Graham Mayor]

Word can be difficult to use without its toolbars - which ones are you
having problems with?
See if http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm and the
examples at the end of http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm point you
in the right direction.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Pa-cellist wrote:
How do I keep toolbars from opening automatically? Most of the time
I don't want them and they just clutter up the screen.

[Pa-cellist]

I am thinking of the drawing toolbar (I have already closed the drawing
canvas), the text box toolbar and the comments toolbar. I have been using
various versions of Word for 20 years, have set up keyboard shortcuts, and
prefer as clean a screen as possible. To maintain that I stayed with Word 97
until this week, when business forces forced me to go to Word 2003.

Thanks,

Michael

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Word can be difficult to use without its toolbars - which ones are you
having problems with?
See if http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm and the
examples at the end of http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm point you
in the right direction.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Pa-cellist wrote:
How do I keep toolbars from opening automatically? Most of the time
I don't want them and they just clutter up the screen.

[Graham Mayor]

Read in conjunction with the second link I posted earlier, the following
macros in normal.dot should fix it.

Sub AutoNew()
CommandBars("Reviewing").Visible = False
CommandBars("Drawing").Visible = False
CommandBars("Forms").Visible = False
CommandBars("Mail Merge").Visible = False
End Sub

Sub AutoExec()
CommandBars("Reviewing").Visible = False
CommandBars("Drawing").Visible = False
CommandBars("Forms").Visible = False
CommandBars("Mail Merge").Visible = False
End Sub

I am not sure which bar you are referring to as the 'text box' toolbar.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Pa-cellist wrote:
I am thinking of the drawing toolbar (I have already closed the
drawing canvas), the text box toolbar and the comments toolbar. I
have been using various versions of Word for 20 years, have set up
keyboard shortcuts, and prefer as clean a screen as possible. To
maintain that I stayed with Word 97 until this week, when business
forces forced me to go to Word 2003.

Thanks,

Michael

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Word can be difficult to use without its toolbars - which ones are
you having problems with?
See if http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm and
the examples at the end of
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm point you in the right
direction.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Pa-cellist wrote:
How do I keep toolbars from opening automatically? Most of the time
I don't want them and they just clutter up the screen.