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Mark Forman / DRC, TRCT - 25 Mar 2008 20:56 GMT

Hello...

When I open Word 2003 on my work machine...(my company has an archiving
database/free-standing server system known as 'DocStar')...a small DocStar
Toolbar appears on it's own horizontal line (all by itself), underneath my
regular Toolbars. The remainder of that space is empty. This is as
annoying as fresh s_it on a hot, sunny day. (sorry).

I thought...OK, I'll just move it to the end of an existing Toolbar, where
it has enough space to squeeze in on the right (& thereby eliminate the need
for an almost empty horizontal space at the top of the page...giving me more
real estate for the documents themselves). But...that only works while the
app is open. When I close out the program; & then reopen it...there it is
AGAIN !!!

So...here is what I DO NOT want to do to solve the problem (&...I realize
this is not the best approach, but...)...

1) I am not allowed to mess around w/ our DocStar server...so I can't cure
it from that end. [And also...it happens w/ Adobe 'Reader' & MacMillian
Publishing's 'Webster's New World Dictionary'...so I need to fix this
problem from within the affected application...not the app of origin.]

2) If I have to write a Macro in order to fix it...I would like that to be
as straightforward (easy) as possible...'cause I'm not a programmer (but I
CAN follow directions really well).

Any help along these lines will be appreciated.

Thanks very much,

mark4man

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Graham Mayor - 26 Mar 2008 07:06 GMT

Open your copy of normal.dot in Word. Position the toolbars where you want
them, add a character to the text space and delete it then save. This should
cause sympathetically prepared toolbars to stay where you put them. If not
you will have to add a macro to turn off the toolbar(s)

The code you need is explained at
http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adobe_acrobat_toolbar.htm (the first listed
macro) Substitute the name of your errant toolbar (taken from the toolbars
list). If you want to kill more than one toolbar add another conditional
statement (three lines) for each.

The macro should be saved in normal.dot
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

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