Toolbar won’t default to “visible”

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A document was created in Word 2000.

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Hello, Dale. Just a shot in the dark, but maybe it’s a security setting on the recipient’s machine. I don’t know where they are in 97, but in 2000 its Tools / Macros / Security.

HTH

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In Word 2000, you can set to any of three security levels.
In Word 97, just two, essentially: On or Off – which can be set in Tools/Options/General.

An intriguing thing: I’d never saved a toolbar to a document before (as opposed to a template) – but just did so in a test doc in Word 97. Strangest thing: whenever I reopen this file now, I get the macro warning.

And if I click on “Disable Macros” to open the document as read-only, the toolbar ain’t there! – not even via View/Toolbars.

I think we’re on to some weird wrinkle of Word behavior but I can’t figure out what!

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Thanks for the tip about security settings.

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Another file that contains information about toolbar settings is Word.pip. See if that files changes when you change toolbar settings.

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No, it doesn’t change, Phil.  The only file that changes is user.dat.

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Hi Dale:

I find this to be interesting because I never thought about show/hide if a toolbar was saved with a document. You are correct that the position & show/hide is not saved with a document.

It should be set the way it was when Word was closed (which confirms what you’ve demonstrated empirically; the option is per user, not per document).

Still, I wonder what would happen if you renamed the Word.pip file & then had the user open the file, change the toggle the show/hide to the opposite, close Word, then reopen the document. Perhaps without write privileges, the .pip file isn’t changed. I’m just kind of surprised–when I change my toolbars, the Word.pip file is changed.

However, the following kb article seems to indicate that the settings are contained in the Data key located at

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice9.0WordData

You can see the article here.

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Thanks, Phil

I tried renaming word.pip, but it still doesn’t get changed when I change the toolbar setting and close the document.

Anyway, I’ve solved the particular problem I was having by writing an AutoOpen macro to force the toolbar on (which was the original problem that started me on this little investigation).

Thanks for your help, Phil
Dale

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