Adobe Acrobat PDFMaker Toolbar in Office - Comments Page 2

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• 26 - Mike

  Apr 22, 2006 at 12:45 pm

  Thanks - worked perfectly in Office X on OS 10.4.6

• 27 - Burachan

  Apr 26, 2006 at 2:48 am

  Thank you!

• 28 - Craig

  May 10, 2006 at 1:43 am

  Thank you. The hint worked perfectly with Office 2004 and Adobe 7 Pro

• 29 - maddym

  May 14, 2006 at 9:27 pm

  To disable pdfmaker tool bar in Mac OSX Office 2004, here is ther easy option:
  
  1. Open Acrobat
  2. In the Help menu, select Detect & Repair
  3. Un-check the box for the PDFMaker plug-in
  4. Click OK.

• 30 - ari

  Jun 13, 2006 at 4:07 pm

  Thank You!!! That was very annoying indeed.

• 31 - Liz Fraley

  Jul 06, 2006 at 9:11 pm

  If it still doesn't go away in Outlook/XP/Acrobat 7.0 (I could NOT get rid of it), two choices:
  
  1) if you also have Acrobat 6.0:
  
  in this folder:
  [wherever]Program FilesAdobeAcrobat 7.0PDFMakerMailOutlook
  
  Delete file: PDFMOutlook.dll
  
  Go to this folder:
  C:Program FilesAdobeAcrobat 6.0Acrobat
  
  copy this file:
  PDF417Encoder.dll
  
  Into the 7.0 folder and rename to "PDFMOutlook.dll"
  
  No errors in Outlook
  No attempts by Adobe to fix/reinstall
  
  
  2) 2nd choice: No Acrobat 6.0
  
  Same as above, go delete PDFMOutlook.dll in 7.0 tree.
  
  Create an empty text file, but rename it "PDFMOutlook.dll".
  
  You'll get an error when you open outlook, but it's better than the Toolbar.
  
  

• 32 - Matt

  Aug 17, 2006 at 1:25 pm

  Thank you!
  Finally got rid of that annoying toolbar. If it could only remember to stay out of the way, or allow me to toggle it on and off I would have kept it.
  Sigh.

• 33 - josh

  Sep 07, 2006 at 1:45 pm

  I found it extremely ridiculous to steal screen space on my limited macbook screen. I am so glad that I'm not the only person who hated this toolbar and is relieved to have it removed. I don't feel quite so anal anymore!

• 34 - Stephen

  Sep 23, 2006 at 12:50 pm

  Thank you! I've been pissed at that thing for so long. I tried everything in Word to get rid of it. This was the first site on Google I tried. I know many people have said it, but I feel I need to: thank you!

• 35 - juan

  Sep 25, 2006 at 1:03 pm

  Oh, man
  You'll keep collecting thanks big time with this tip. It has made my office experience SO much better. THANK YOU!

• 36 - macvill

  Nov 03, 2006 at 10:22 pm

  My problem was with Outlook 2003.
  
  The solution that worked for me, similar to Liz Fraley above:
  
  - Go to [wherever]AdobeAcrobatPDFMakerMailOutlook files may be.
  - Rename PDFMOutlook.dll to (1)PDFMOutlook.dll
  - Next time you open Outlook 2004, Adobe will try to repair: cancel. It opens with no PDFMaker toolbar! It never asked to repair again.
  
  Hope this helps.

• 37 - Mister Programmer

  Nov 20, 2006 at 10:23 am

  Haha. Thanks, I knew I've done this in Windows, now I did it in Mac too.

• 38 - mrtoner

  Mar 31, 2007 at 8:07 pm

  Thanks so much!

• 39 - Daisy

  May 09, 2007 at 2:35 pm

  This was a great comment. Thanks for taking the time. Worked like a charm.

• 40 - Ian Page-Echols

  Aug 01, 2007 at 6:13 pm

  Thanks much! Just wanted to make clear for others looking at this later that you have to get rid of all of the 4 listed files, as well as the folder in the update 2 at the top of the page and then you should be good.
  
  This worked in Acrobat Professional 7 in Office X on Mac OS X 10.4.10.
  
  Thanks, Ian

• 41 - Chris

  Oct 10, 2007 at 3:46 am

  Thank you ever so much!!
  
  You are my new and powerful god!

• 42 - bk

  Dec 15, 2007 at 11:32 am

  Thank you, thank you!!
  I wish I'd found this 3 yrs ago when you wrote it....

• 43 - d.i. johnson

  Jan 03, 2008 at 12:37 pm

  Thanks for the hint. But in looking here for the solution, your tip pointed me toward this simpler solution in Office X:
  
  Inside the Microsoft Office X folder are the subfolders Office > Startup.
  
  Inside this Startup folder are additional subfolders for Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
  
  Inside each is a file named pdfmaker.xxx. This file starts the pdfmaker toolbar.
  
  The easy fix is to create a folder named "Disabled" in ...Microsoft Office X > Startup and move the file pdfmaker.xxx into it.
  
  If you ever want the pdfmaker toolbar back, just return the pdfmaker.xxx file back into it's original location.
  
  I hope this is helpful. Cheers!

• 44 - Sarah

  Jan 14, 2008 at 3:57 pm

  THANK YOU!!

• 45 - Nick

  Jan 26, 2008 at 7:18 pm

  Thanks so much! $#%&#@ Adobe!

• 46 - bliffle

  Jan 26, 2008 at 11:52 pm

  Switch to one of the excellent distros for any linux flavor and use one of the excellent PDF readers and editors therein.
  
  90% of your troubles will disappear. And for the few occasional problems you have will be more easily solved by the helpful community of linux users and the many alternatives to Adobe and Microsoft products.
  

• 47 - Glenn

  Mar 28, 2008 at 2:44 pm

  Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

• 48 - Steven Jones

  May 04, 2008 at 6:15 am

  Thank You

• 49 - BJM

  May 13, 2008 at 12:26 pm

  Could you please post instructions on how to do this in Office 2003 for Windows?

• 50 - BJM

  May 27, 2008 at 10:19 am

  I answered my own question.
  
  Ding-dong, the witch is dead.