Getting Rid of the Web Toolbar in Microsoft Word

on ADD Balance by Charles Kenyon

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This page last revised: 16 Aug 2001 02:30:00 -0500 .

How can I get rid of the web toolbar?

There are three methods to be looked at:

Document-specific macro - put in "ThisDocument" object

The first is for a particular document. The second is global and gets rid of the Web toolbar until you take steps to revive it.

Method 1:

Use the VBA Editor to put this in the Document's code (in the ThisDocument object :

Private Sub Document_Open()
	On Error Resume Next
		Application.CommandBars("Web").Enabled = False
	On Error GoTo 0
End Sub

Private Sub Document_Close()
	On Error Resume Next
		Application.CommandBars("Web").Enabled = True
	On Error GoTo 0
End Sub

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Global - Get rid of the Web Toolbar in Word

Method 2 - kill the web toolbar:

Put the following code into an AutoExec macro in Normal.dot or some other global template:

Application.CommandBars("Web").Enabled = False

Keep in mind that this kills the web toolbar, which is something that I can live with. If you use this, be sure to leave yourself a note in numerous places on what it is you did so that if you ever want the thing you can get it back. I suppose the elegant solution would be to put a macro on the View toolbar to enable it. (The enabling macro says "true" instead of "false.") You could use the toggle macro below which takes whatever the current status is and switches it. It also makes the toolbar visible if you just enabled it.

You may want to put the following in your Normal.dot or another global as a toggle command:

Sub ToggleWebToolbarEnabled()
    With Application.CommandBars("Web")
        .Enabled = Not .Enabled
        If .Enabled = True Then
            .Visible = True
        End If
    End With
End Sub

See Template Basics for information about global templates.

Method 3 - Add-In from Pieter Janssen

I've created an add-in just for this purpose. you can download it from:

http://users.skynet.be/wordprogramming.be/ 

(right-click on disablewebbar.dot and save target to disk)

It adds a menu item called 'never show webbar' to the view menu.

If it is checked, the web-toolbar won't show up, if it's not, it will.

HTH, pieter. (Janssen)

See also MVP site: http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MacrosVBA/BanishWebToolbar.htm 

Off-topic - but did you know that you can't record a macro using the web toolbar? A workaround is discussed at: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q212/6/42.ASP 

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