How to remove the toolbar from Excel / Office

[dbonneville]

I will never need to use Contribute in any Office App. I want to remove the
toolbar from Excel, at the moment. I have tried every way conceivable to get
rid of the toolbar yet it comes back when I restart Excel. What do I need to do
to make it go away for ever? It shouldn't be this hard! I have unchecked its
toolbar box 20 times, yet it comes right back...

[peglaws]

I didn't know Contribute added a toolbar to Office apps - I might find a use
for it (sorry I'm no help to you, however). What version of Contribute are you
using? I'm assume the toolbar was automatically added during installation?

[dbonneville]

I'm using Contribute 4. The toolbar was installed during the application
install. I had version 3 already, and it didn't have the toolbars in the
offices apps. If it did, I must have easily turned them off because I have no
recollection of having turned them off. But this is frustrating because I've
tried everything I can think of with no luck so far.

[blue3123]

I would also truly like the answer to this question. Contribute 4 was recently
installed on my computer at work and every single office program has a
Contribute Toolbar. Nothing I do removes it permanently. I've tried going
into Tools, Customize and telling it to delete the toolbar. That only works
for that session. Turning it off in View Toolbars doesn't last either. I
don't need to the toolbar, it takes up valuable real estate and is just
annoying. Any help in this area would greatly be appreciated.

Thanks,

[dbonneville]

I've had no luck yet. There has to be a way. I can't find it. This is BIG
oversight if it's buried somewhere. I certainly hope they didn't make it a
"feature" that you can't get rid of it. I also hope someone from Adobe chimes
in pretty soon.

[David Pearson]

In message <evmfh2$eio$1@forums.macromedia.com>, dbonneville
<webforumsuser@macromedia.com> writes

>I've had no luck yet. There has to be a way. I can't find it. This is BIG
>oversight if it's buried somewhere. I certainly hope they didn't make it a
>"feature" that you can't get rid of it. I also hope someone from Adobe chimes
>in pretty soon.
>

The only solution we found was to uninstall it, and re-install it as a
custom installation - turning off the (from memory) "Office integration"
option... (before we did that, my copy of Outlook kept crashing - now
it doesn't!)
--
David Pearson

[dbonneville]

I went to uninstall it and saw that there was 3 options: remove, repair, and
change. I clicked "change" and was presented with 3 checkbox options for
toolbar integration: Office, IE, and Firefox. I deselected them all. I
experience a system crash and had to reboot twice. On the second reboot
(neither of which may have been related to the installer), all my apps were
toolbar-less as I expected. Several other people running Contribute in the
office did the same with excellent results.

[Christyb]

You can get rid of the toolbar and menu options in Word by deleting the
Contribute template. (Tools, Template and Addins). That was easy for me, but
I have to communicate to my users.

Still looking for an Excel solution.

[Christyb]

Instead of a custom install, etc., you can rename these files under Program Files/Adobe..etc..

OfficePlugin.dll
OfficePluginRes.dll

to get ride Contribute toolbars and menus in Word and Excel.

[mel_in]

Thank You, Thank You. That worked great! It was really annoying to me as well
and I also couldn't understand why it kept coming back no matter how many times
I tried unchecking and deleting the toolbar.

[Jingleballs]

This was pretty annoying. I had to reinstall Contribute (Web Premium) and I
was never given the option for a custom installation to uncheck this option.
It automatically installed the Office plug-ins. Christyb's solution to rename
the dll files seems to have worked in Word, and Outlook. (I'm not going to
need to edit or copy emails in Contibute). I had to remove the toolbars in
Firefox and IE. Pain in the A$$%^&!.

[jackodn]

Mad props to Christyb! Renaming the two .dlls worked perfectly and was easy.

Thanks mucho!