any Microsoft Office wizzes?

[Verdandi]

If Excel or Word open up that @(%&# reviewing toolbar on me one more time, so help me, I'm going to do something drastic. I like my screens clean. I have created custom toolbars that have everything I use regularly and not a thing extra. I know where to find other features on the instances when I would like to use them. I get extremely irritated when software decides that I want my configurations changed.

So, can anyone tell me how to stop these programs from displaying the reviewing toolbar whenever I open documents that it deems need it? (Apparently these are things that someone else created.) I've looked through all the built-in options a million times. I've tried the built-in and online helps. They're great at telling you basic things that you could find eventually by looking through the options. And useless at helping you find things that a more advanced user might like. But if it can be done I'm going to do it, whether they want me to or not.

I'm comfortable mucking around in the hidden files if that's what it takes, as long as I'm not breaking anything. I looked around but couldn't find anything that seems to fit the bill. My abilities there are limited due to my limited understanding of the mechanics of the Office software.

Can anyone help?

[Doomspark Deathfire]

Obvious solution:

Tools -> Customize
Click on the Toolbars tab.
Uncheck "Reviewing"


If you have already tried this, I apologize. It wasn't clear from your post if you had or not.

[Ngreth Thergn]

I think it depends on what features the document is saved with... and I am not sure you can do anything about it. But a real word expert may tel you different.

[Verdandi]

Obvious solution:

Tools -> Customize
Click on the Toolbars tab.
Uncheck "Reviewing"


If you have already tried this, I apologize. It wasn't clear from your post if you had or not.

Yep, that's how I customized them in the first place. Every time Excel (or any other Office program) opens it as part of opening a file, I close it again immediately. But it still seems to do it for darn near everything I open that was created by someone else.

Much as I loathe it, I think you're right Ngreth.

/scowls at Microsoft, ready to attack

[Morani]

I BELIEVE that you are stuck with it (sorta). Each time you open a file that was not created under your customized tool set (made before you made the custom set you currently have or made by someone else) it'll check it to "confirm". The only way I know of to stop it is "replace" the file by saving it once your customized set is in place. (I.E. open file, go thorough the annoying part, make sure your tool set is right, save file.) After you do that, you should not get the "reviewing" bit for that particular file. Again, I'm not 100% on this but I'm pretty close.