Remove Add/Remove Buttons from Toolbars (Word 2003)

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Is there a way to remove or disable the Add/Remove Buttons buton at then end of toolbars in Word 2003? I don’t want my users to be able to customize their toolbars.

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No, but you can specify that a command bar (i.e. toolbar or menu bar) cannot be customized, for example:

CommandBars(“Standard”).Protection = msoBarNoCustomize

If you want to make all toolbars non-customizable:

Sub DisableCustomize()
Dim cbr As CommandBar
On Error Resume Next
For Each cbr In CommandBars
cbr.Protection = msoBarNoCustomize
Next cbr
End Sub

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Thanks! I’ll give that a shot.

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(Edited by JanB on 30-Oct-06 09:10. added second sentence)

There’s another very useful command preventing users to accidently hide a (custom) toolbar and then calling the helpdesk to get it back again. It removes the commandbar from the list you get when you right-click on the toolbar area.

CommandBars(“MyBar”).Protection = msoBarNoChangeVisible

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As an addition to Jan’s suggestion: you can set multiple properties of a toolbar in one instruction by combining them using Or or +. For example:

Commandbars(“Standard”).Protection = msoBarNoChangeVisible Or msoBarNoCustomize

or

Commandbars(“Standard”).Protection = msoBarNoChangeVisible + msoBarNoCustomize

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