self-healing will put them back. lock the /Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ 2004/Office/Startup/ folder: sudo chown root:wheel /Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ 2004/Office/Startup/ then sudo chmod 700 /Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ 2004/Office/Startup/ ...never have to worry about it again. don don montalvo, nyc Scott McCulloch <mylists at ascottmcculloch.com> wrote: >Try removing it from the Office startup items: > >/Applications/Microsoft Office X/Office/Startup/Word/PDFmaker.dot > >Move that file somewhere else (do the same for the PDFmaker files in >the Excel and Powerpoint folders), and I think you'll be rid of that >toolbar. > >Scott > > >On Mar 4, 2005, at 2:39 PM, Stroller wrote: > >> Adobe glitches, I'm full of 'em me. >> >> Everytime I start Word I see an extra toolbar below the main one with >> nothing but two PDF icons on it >> <http://mac.stroller.uk.eu.org/AdobeAnnoyance.jpg>, and it irks me no >> end because it takes up unnecessary screen-space & I always end up >> closing it immediately. >> >> It turns out that this is called the "Adobe Acrobat PDFMaker" toolbar >> <http://mac.stroller.uk.eu.org/AdobeAnnoyance2.jpg>, and that however >> many times I close it, unchoose it from the View > Toolbars Menu and >> delete it from the "Customise Toolbars/Menus" dialogue >> <http://mac.stroller.uk.eu.org/AdobeAnnoyance3.jpg> it comes back >> again the next time I open Word. >> >> This atrocity is clearly perpetrated by Adobe CS. Does anyone have any >> idea how to restrain it? >> > > Stroller.