Annoying toolbar in Excel and Word

[jshrek]

After installing Master Collection CS3, my Microsoft Word and Excel now have an
annoying Contribute toolbar that appears EVERY time I start them up. I know how
to hide the toolbar, but it just appears again at every startup of either Word
or Excel.

How do I get rid of this 'infection'? I do not want this toolbar (or menu) in
my Microsoft Office programs.

Thanks

[ThinkInk]

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[jshrek]

Thanks ThinkInk... that did it! Here's the whole solution:

Contribute was installed as part of the whole CS3 Master Collection, and
therefore none of the adobe products show up in the add/remove programs list,
and therefore you cannot modify the install for an individual adobe product.

I tried to unregister the officeplugin.dll like this:
regsvr32 /u "c:\program files\adobe\adobe contribute cs3\officeplugin.dll"
but I get an error that says it can't be unregistered.

SOLUTION:
I renamed the officeplugin.dll to officeplugin.dll.OLD and this SOLVED the
problem (thanks fydo1974). The toolbar and menu no longer appear in Word or
Excel .

And just in case you need to make the toolbar active/available again, I
confirmed that the following does work and will re-register the plugin. I'm
using Win XP Pro, so from the command line, type:
cd c:\windows\system32
and then type:
regsvr32 "c:\program files\adobe\adobe contribute cs3\officeplugin.dll"

Now this still doesn't solve the problem of Adobe putting it there in the
first place without asking!!! Where can we report this BUG to Adobe?

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I also wanted to get rid of the Adobe PDF and Acrobat Comment menus that
appeared when Acrobat was installed. I'm not sure if there is a
officeplugin.dll file in the acrobat folder, because I found the following
solution first and it worked:

Look for the Acrobat msi file that is left behind it the acrobat folder:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 8.0\Setup
Files\{nnnnnnnnn-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx}\AcroPro.msi

Run the AcroPro.msi application, select the "Modify" installation option, go
to "Create Adobe PDF" and then for the "Acrobat PDFMaker" I choose "this
feature will not be available", and complete the installation modification.
MS-Office apps and IE have no Acrobat toolbars or menus: just the situation I
wanted.

[pansophy1]

I followed this procedure (renamed OfficePlugin.dll to OfficePlugin.dllOLD),
and it did not work. A Contribute add-in continues to show up. I am trying to
install a COM add-in from another vendor, and all I get is a _duplicate_
Contribute toolbar. (So now, I have two, and I don't even want one!)
Contribute doesn't even show up in the COM Add-Ins menu any more, but it still
shows up in Excel. We even uninstalled and reinstalled Office 2007, and it
still will not go away. I hate the thought of uninstalling and reinstalling
CS3 Web Premium, given the problems we had installing it the first time (one
installation took three days, and another took a week, and then only after much
help from Adobe). Anybody have any idea how the Contribute toolbar is
bypassing all the menus and settings and still showing up in Excel (twice)???

[jshrek]

The only thing I can think of, is that you have more than one OfficePlugin.dll
file on your computer. I would do a full search of your hard drive (including
hidden and system files) and see if it comes up somewhere else. If it does,
then try renaming any others that show up. You may have to contact Adobe
support directly though, if this doesn't do it.

I have no ideas about the other COM add-in problem, sorry. You may have to
contact that manufacturer to resolve the problem.

[pansophy1]

Thanks for the quick reply, jshrek! Yes, it looks I will have to contact Adobe
Support, because there were only two files found, and they were the ones I
renamed. This is infuriating. I think I will wait and see if the other
add-in shows up once I get rid of the Contribute add-in, because I have done
everything that they suggested also. The interesting thing is that the other
program does start up in Excel (there's a progress bar that tells me it's
there), but the ribbon will not show up, and when I tried to add it manually,
that's when I got the second Contribute toolbar, which I now can't get rid of.
(Sorry for the run-on sentence...).

Thanks again!

[DKH]

I know most folks are looking to simply get rid of the contribute toolbars
in MS Office, but I'd like to find a more "middle-of-the-road" solution. My
agrivation is not so much that Adobe installed it without asking (which IS
bad and certainly impolite if nothing else), but why won't it remember and
respect the user selected status of the bar? If I turn it off, why won't it
stay off until I choose to turn it back on again at some point in the
future?

This is my biggest annoyance with Adobe's toolbars for Office. I want their
toolbars to remember and respect their user selectable visible/hidden
status. So is there a way, maybe a registry setting or something, to get the
Contribute toolbar to either remember its status in the Office programs OR
default to "hidden"?

Thanks!

David

"jshrek" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:fntbcp$qes$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> After installing Master Collection CS3, my Microsoft Word and Excel now
> have an
> annoying Contribute toolbar that appears EVERY time I start them up. I
> know how
> to hide the toolbar, but it just appears again at every startup of either
> Word
> or Excel.
>
> How do I get rid of this 'infection'? I do not want this toolbar (or menu)
> in
> my Microsoft Office programs.
>
> Thanks

[jshrek]

That would be a great feature!!! Adobe, are you listening???