How to Get Rid Of Adobe Contribute Toolbar in Microsoft Office
Adobe makes some great products but I haven’t always been fond of certain programming nuances. Like the fact that most Adobe products seem bloated and run slow.
I loaded Adobe CS3 Web Premium on my computer and found Adobe Contribute toolbars on Outlook, Word and Excel.
Going through the normal paces of View | Toolbars and unchecking Adobe Contribute did nothing, still there. Likewise when I chose “customize” toolbars and deleted the toolbar; still there.
I found the answer via Google..
Exit all Microsoft Office applications (even ActiveSync, which, conveniently has no option to exit! See How to Turn Off Microsoft ActiveSync).
Navigate to “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Contribute CS3″ (the default location unless you changed it) and rename these to files to something else of your choosing - I usually add the extension “bad” to the end.
OfficePlugin.dll
OfficePluginRes.dll
And Voila!, Contribute toolbar is now gone.
November 1st, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Thanks so much. Developing Excel for First graders is going to be much smoother now that that Contribute toolbar is gone.