Sorry to bother with this once again; I put this question up before, but
somehow I managed to put it in a Macintosh forum, and the answers from there
are rather confusing, so I try again. This time the screen reads "Word
Menus-Toolbars".

I have a Word document (.doc) acting as a template contaning some control
elements (check boxes - no macro assigned). Every time I open it:
1) it is in the design mode
2) the Control Element Tool Box is active together with
3) a third small tool box which contains only the design mode on/off toggle
and which does not appear on the tool boxes list.

All three items are quite annoying, but I can't get rid of them. I have of
course tried to switch design mode OFF, close the two extra tool boxes and
save the document, but every time I open it again, they are back. It is a
nuisance in all the documents created from that "template".

The Mac forum told me that the reason lies in the original creators .dot
file, and that I should make him or her change it, but that is not possible.
Also I can't imagine how a change in the MS Office setup on a computer
perhaps several hundred km away in a completely different part of the country
should affect a Word document on my hard drive.

The document is not a real template; only a plain Word document containing a
table, which, except for headings, is empty. You are then supposed to fill in
the empty cells with info based on the current case and save it with a new
name.

Can somebody tell me how to switch these tool boxes off premanently?

NSV