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Turn off automatic appearance of toolbars & view change
I am very picky about how my toolbars are set up and how my screen appears.
There are two things that drive me around the twist with Word and I will be indebted to anyone who can provide a solution to these. 1. Whenever I click on a heading in a table of contents to go to that section within a Word document, the "Web" toolbar appears. I don't want it! How do I keep the toolbar from appearing? 2. I work with tables alot and thus have added many of the borders and shading options to my toolbar. If I change the format of a border, for example, select a thicker line width from the pulldown menu, Word insists upon not only opening up the full borders and shading toolbar, but switching my view from normal to print layout. Is there any way to get Word to NOT switch my view? I am currently using Word 2000, but will be switching to 2003 shortly. Thanks! |
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You'll find you don't have a problem with the Web toolbar in Word 2003. But
see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...WebToolbar.htm You can apply table borders from the built-in borders flyout without changing views, but if you want the fuller functionality of the Tables and Borders toolbars (selecting border weight, etc.), then, yes, Word will change views. -- 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. "Lisen" wrote in message ... I am very picky about how my toolbars are set up and how my screen appears. There are two things that drive me around the twist with Word and I will be indebted to anyone who can provide a solution to these. 1. Whenever I click on a heading in a table of contents to go to that section within a Word document, the "Web" toolbar appears. I don't want it! How do I keep the toolbar from appearing? 2. I work with tables alot and thus have added many of the borders and shading options to my toolbar. If I change the format of a border, for example, select a thicker line width from the pulldown menu, Word insists upon not only opening up the full borders and shading toolbar, but switching my view from normal to print layout. Is there any way to get Word to NOT switch my view? I am currently using Word 2000, but will be switching to 2003 shortly. Thanks! |
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Turn off automatic appearance of toolbars & view change
In 2001 I found a 'setting' (perhaps in the registry) that told word to not
automatically pop-up toolbars under the menu bar. This was nice, because I had simply customized my menu bar with the standard menu & all and only the tools that I usually use, all on the one line menu bar! For rare occasions that I needed something else, I could always get it in the normal fashions (hot-keys or menu tree). I cannot find the same option in Word (XP, 2002, 10). It is a persistent pain to wind up with an inch or more of the screen obliterated with these uselessly offered toolbars. I am must repeatedly (during an edit session) menu-click the menubar & turn off all the altered items, in order to dismiss them, recover my precious screen space & re-simplify my display. (If Ms programmers thought clearly, when the menu/toolbar is customised by the user, the auto-pop-up toolbars would revert to manual.) Insert the following command into a macro, and run it once to change the Word 2002/10/XP setting. This will allow the manual use of the "Web" toolbar, but it won't pop-up. CommandBars("Web").Enabled = False You might have to do the same for each of the other ~20 toolbars that bother you the most. You might have to explore your registry (be careful!) to find the names of any others you want to 'manualize'. "Lisen" wrote: I am very picky about how my toolbars are set up and how my screen appears. There are two things that drive me around the twist with Word and I will be indebted to anyone who can provide a solution to these. 1. Whenever I click on a heading in a table of contents to go to that section within a Word document, the "Web" toolbar appears. I don't want it! How do I keep the toolbar from appearing? 2. I work with tables alot and thus have added many of the borders and shading options to my toolbar. If I change the format of a border, for example, select a thicker line width from the pulldown menu, Word insists upon not only opening up the full borders and shading toolbar, but switching my view from normal to print layout. Is there any way to get Word to NOT switch my view? I am currently using Word 2000, but will be switching to 2003 shortly. Thanks! |
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Turn off automatic appearance of toolbars & view change
It's been a while since I used Word2003, but I never had any excess
toolbars showing -- just the two regular ones (I think they were called "Standard" and "Formatting"), and the one with the Track Changes commands (since I use that all the time). Occasionally contextual toolbars would show up, such as one for drawing objects. It sounds like you're a candidate for Word2007, which has only one toolbar, with next to no commands on it until you customize it. Or you could download the beta of Office2010. On Dec 16, 4:43*pm, Wikid wrote: In 2001 I found a 'setting' (perhaps in the registry) that told word to not automatically pop-up toolbars under the menu bar. *This was nice, because I had simply customized my menu bar with the standard menu & all and only the tools that I usually use, all on the one line menu bar! *For rare occasions that I needed something else, I could always get it in the normal fashions (hot-keys or menu tree). *I cannot find the same option in Word (XP, 2002, 10). *It is a persistent pain to wind up with an inch or more of the screen obliterated with these uselessly offered toolbars. *I am must repeatedly (during an edit session) menu-click the menubar & turn off all the altered items, in order to dismiss them, recover my precious screen space & re-simplify my display. *(If Ms programmers thought clearly, when the menu/toolbar is customised by the user, the auto-pop-up toolbars would revert to manual.) *Insert the following command into a macro, and run it once to change the Word 2002/10/XP setting. *This will allow the manual use of the "Web" toolbar, but it won't pop-up. * CommandBars("Web").Enabled = False You might have to do the same for each of the other ~20 toolbars that bother you the most. *You might have to explore your registry (be careful!) to find the names of any others you want to 'manualize'. |
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