Hello everyone

I am using word 2003. I get a very weird problem with my toolbar buttons.
Every time I add a button into my toolbars (standard, formatting), it will be
lost next time I restart the program. For example, when I add the superscript
button into the formatting toolbar, the button keeps there and works well.
But if I close the program and restart it, the button disapears!! Another
example, if I remove a button from the default toolbar, say zoom button, it
will be back when I restart my word program!!

In one word, it seems that the word program locks up the toolbar to be its
default form, users can't change it.

I will appreciate any response. Thanks a lot.

Is Adobe Acrobat 7.0 installed on the computer? If so, the
Acrobat 7.0 Create Adobe PDF toolbar add-in for Word prevents
Word from automatically saving changes to the normal.dot template
(which is where toolbar customizations are stored). Customize
the Word toolbar button again, and click "Shift+File | Save All"
to force Word to save the normal.dot template. Alternatively,
you can prevent the Adobe add-in from loading by editing the
Windows registry key
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Word \Addins\PDFMaker.OfficeAddin"
and changing the "LoadBehavior" subkey value from 3 to 0, but
you'll lose the PDF toolbar if you do this.

Yan wrote:
Hello everyone

I am using word 2003. I get a very weird problem with my toolbar buttons.
Every time I add a button into my toolbars (standard, formatting), it will be
lost next time I restart the program. For example, when I add the superscript
button into the formatting toolbar, the button keeps there and works well.
But if I close the program and restart it, the button disapears!! Another
example, if I remove a button from the default toolbar, say zoom button, it
will be back when I restart my word program!!

In one word, it seems that the word program locks up the toolbar to be its
default form, users can't change it.

I will appreciate any response. Thanks a lot.

Dear Garfield-n-odie

Thank you very much. I do have Adobe Acrobat 7.0 installed on the computer
and your answer solves the problem very well. Thanks a lot.

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

Is Adobe Acrobat 7.0 installed on the computer? If so, the
Acrobat 7.0 Create Adobe PDF toolbar add-in for Word prevents
Word from automatically saving changes to the normal.dot template
(which is where toolbar customizations are stored). Customize
the Word toolbar button again, and click "Shift+File | Save All"
to force Word to save the normal.dot template. Alternatively,
you can prevent the Adobe add-in from loading by editing the
Windows registry key
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Word \Addins\PDFMaker.OfficeAddin"
and changing the "LoadBehavior" subkey value from 3 to 0, but
you'll lose the PDF toolbar if you do this.

I've been having similar problems to the one garfield-n-odie suggested a fix
for in Word. However, in following his registry suggestions, I don't HAVE a
\Microsoft\Office\Word\Addins etc spot in my Registry. I do have Adobe 7,
although I don't see any presence of Adobe toolbar modifications in Word. I
get as far as \Microsoft\Office...and the rest of what garfield shows in his
string doesn't appear on my computer. Anyone else know how I might keep my
normal.dot template from changing all the time?

Thanks!

Judy

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

Is Adobe Acrobat 7.0 installed on the computer? If so, the
Acrobat 7.0 Create Adobe PDF toolbar add-in for Word prevents
Word from automatically saving changes to the normal.dot template
(which is where toolbar customizations are stored). Customize
the Word toolbar button again, and click "Shift+File | Save All"
to force Word to save the normal.dot template. Alternatively,
you can prevent the Adobe add-in from loading by editing the
Windows registry key
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Word \Addins\PDFMaker.OfficeAddin"
and changing the "LoadBehavior" subkey value from 3 to 0, but
you'll lose the PDF toolbar if you do this.

Yan wrote:
Hello everyone

I am using word 2003. I get a very weird problem with my toolbar buttons.
Every time I add a button into my toolbars (standard, formatting), it will be
lost next time I restart the program. For example, when I add the superscript
button into the formatting toolbar, the button keeps there and works well.
But if I close the program and restart it, the button disapears!! Another
example, if I remove a button from the default toolbar, say zoom button, it
will be back when I restart my word program!!

In one word, it seems that the word program locks up the toolbar to be its
default form, users can't change it.

I will appreciate any response. Thanks a lot.

Adobe now offers a free 7.0.5 version update to Acrobat 7 that
supposedly fixes the problem without you having to edit the
registry. See http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/331259.html
for more information.

Judy wrote:
I've been having similar problems to the one garfield-n-odie suggested a fix
for in Word. However, in following his registry suggestions, I don't HAVE a
\Microsoft\Office\Word\Addins etc spot in my Registry. I do have Adobe 7,
although I don't see any presence of Adobe toolbar modifications in Word. I
get as far as \Microsoft\Office...and the rest of what garfield shows in his
string doesn't appear on my computer. Anyone else know how I might keep my
normal.dot template from changing all the time?

Thanks!

Judy

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:


Is Adobe Acrobat 7.0 installed on the computer? If so, the
Acrobat 7.0 Create Adobe PDF toolbar add-in for Word prevents
Word from automatically saving changes to the normal.dot template
(which is where toolbar customizations are stored). Customize
the Word toolbar button again, and click "Shift+File | Save All"
to force Word to save the normal.dot template. Alternatively,
you can prevent the Adobe add-in from loading by editing the
Windows registry key
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Wo rd\Addins\PDFMaker.OfficeAddin"
and changing the "LoadBehavior" subkey value from 3 to 0, but
you'll lose the PDF toolbar if you do this.