Removing Adobe stuff from Word

[AshMan]

I?ve just installed Adode Acrobat/Reader Pro on my computer and now I have found that it has added some add ons to Word. While these things may be useful to some, I have no use for them and I have found that the add ons add a noticeable delay to the loading of word. Please can someone tell me how to uninstall this PDF feature? I don?t just mean hiding the icons.

Thanks.

[John Veteran]

right click any of the toolbars and uncheck the adobe bar. to actually uninstall it, you would have to remove a few registry keys, and unregister the dlls associated with them. if it's not shown, it shouldn't slow down the loading of word.

if it really bothers you that much, search your computer for any adobe files (after you've uninstalled it of course) and unregister them, then delete them. run a reg cleaner, and start word. if they keys still exist, word will probably give you an error saying it can't find some files, and it might delete the needed keys, it might not...

also, search on adobe's site about removing them.

[PureEdit]

Another reason I hate Adobe Reader :p

Preview works so much better and is so much faster :p

[John Veteran]

OT: i hate adobe too, and they push the PDF format around like it's a standard :crazy: why can't the standard be an HTML document or even RTF? :huh: hell, even word format would be better; microsoft has free office file viewers available...

[Sushubh]

when u just need to get the message across. nothing works like plain text!

[CoolCatBad]

You should unuinstall it, then go to oldversion.com to get an older, lighter Acrobat.

4.0 is light and easy.

[AshMan]

  Swampster said:

You should unuinstall it, then go to oldversion.com to get an older, lighter Acrobat.

4.0 is light and easy.

Thanks but It's the Pro version with the Distiller.

[morganpugh84]

  gameguy said:

OT: i hate adobe too, and they push the PDF format around like it's a standard :crazy: why can't the standard be an HTML document or even RTF? :huh: hell, even word format would be better; microsoft has free office file viewers available...

PDF is a standard. It is used because it is always displayed how the author wanted which doesnt happen with HTML and RTF because different software uses different rendering engines. PDF also makes it a lot harder to edit, etc. With HTML and RTF anyone can load it up in Word or Dreamweaver, etc and edit it. Companies don't want people editing there documents.

I personally really like the PDF format. It is easy to make PDFs and the software to view them is free and isnt the worst developed software in the world. I use PDF all the time :)

[U.N.C.L.E.]

A better way is:

TOOLS | Templates and Add-Ins...

then uncheck PDFMaker. This keeps the add-in available should you ever decide you need it again.

This method works in all the office programs. If you hide the toolbar in Word, it keeps comming back when you restart Word.

[DreamweaverN]

Hrmm it keeps comming back no matter what I do, I wonder why? I find it very annoying to BTW.

[Hawkeye]

Alright. Here is the easiest and most painless way to do it. This way is guaranteed to be easy and guaranteed to work without doing anything complex.

Go to the Control Panel and Add or Remove Programs. Select Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional, and then instead of clicking on "Remove", click on "Change" instead. This should now take you to a screen in the dialog box named Program Maintenance, with three options: Modify, Repair, Remove. You are looking for the Modify option.

When you click on Modify, then click on Next. It takes you to a screen that says Custom Setup at the top. Click on the plus sign for "Create Adobe PDF" to expand the branch. Click on the plus sign for "Acrobat PDFMaker" to expand the branch.

You now need to click on the arrow for the first option there (Microsoft Office), and select the option labeled "This feature will not be available", which has a red "X" next to it. After that you can leave the rest alone, as the part that you need is now changed. Continue by clicking Next until the last screen, where you can click Finish to complete the process. The Acrobat PDFMaker buttons will no longer appear on the toolbars of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint after this.

[DreamweaverN]

I would have thought it would stay away when I told it to, oh well. Thanks for the tip :happy:.

[AshMan]

  Hawkeye said:

Alright. Here is the easiest and most painless way to do it. This way is guaranteed to be easy and guaranteed to work without doing anything complex.

Go to the Control Panel and Add or Remove Programs. Select Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional, and then instead of clicking on "Remove", click on "Change" instead. This should now take you to a screen in the dialog box named Program Maintenance, with three options: Modify, Repair, Remove. You are looking for the Modify option.

When you click on Modify, then click on Next. It takes you to a screen that says Custom Setup at the top. Click on the plus sign for "Create Adobe PDF" to expand the branch. Click on the plus sign for "Acrobat PDFMaker" to expand the branch.

You now need to click on the arrow for the first option there (Microsoft Office), and select the option labeled "This feature will not be available", which has a red "X" next to it. After that you can leave the rest alone, as the part that you need is now changed. Continue by clicking Next until the last screen, where you can click Finish to complete the process. The Acrobat PDFMaker buttons will no longer appear on the toolbars of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint after this.

Thanks, that did it :-)

[morganpugh84]

Ok quickest way...

Go to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\STARTUP

Copy the file PDFMaker.dot someone else and zip it up (I only say zip it up so that it cant somehow get itself attached back to Word). Then delete the original and it wont load at startup anymore. Then if you ever need it again just copy it back in and load word :)