Hi Ed,
this one works for me:
Sub Autoopen()
With Application.CommandBars("Web")
.Enabled = False
.Visible = False
End With
End Sub
plus in autoexec, maybe.
By the way, the I needed the ontime macro
only to get control over custom commandbars
which where located in templates other than normal dot.

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Greetings from Bavaria, Germany
Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA
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Word 2002, Windows 2000
Ed - 27 Apr 2006 15:31 GMT
Thanks, Helmut. Now if it were only so easy to vanquish the Copy Task Pane!
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Ed
> Hi Ed,
>
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> only to get control over custom commandbars
> which where located in templates other than normal dot.