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.
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Thanks so much. Developing Excel for First graders is going to be much smoother now that that Contribute toolbar is gone.
The Contribute toolbar is like a sliver of glass, that once stepped on, defies excavation and must “grow” out. Thanks for this tip, it saved me many (more) hours of agony.
When you say “rename these to files to something else of your choosing – I usually add the extension “bad” to the end. OfficePlugin.dll OfficePluginRes.dll Do you nean rename OfficePlugin.dll and OfficePluginRes.dll? If so, give me an example of the new name. Does the “bad” feplce the dll extension or what?
Thanks so much,
Stan
I leave the filename as is, then add “.bad” to the end. OfficePlugin.dll.bad
That way, I know the entire filename if I ever need to rename it back.