MS Word 2003 Status Bar Question...

[SpyderMan1234]

My office has recently deployed Office 2003 to all users. This includes a very stripped-down version of Word. I have had to disable many of Word's features using both group policies and VBA. I have been able to hide/disable everything I've wanted with the exception of one thing...The status bar on Word has a pane for enabling "Tracking Changes" and for "Record Macro." All the user has to do is double-click one of those panes and he can potentially cause problems with some of the code in my normal.dot. Do anyone know of ANYTHING that can be done to remove/disable those items from the status bar????? I have looked everywhere, but can't seem to find where anyone has successfully accomplished this. Any insight is MUCH appreciated.

Thanks

 

[TonyJollans]

Hi SpyderMan1234,

I don't really approve of this kind of activity and it's rarely totally successful but ...

You can't suppress the individual Status Bar controls (you can hide the whole status bar if you want) but you can intercept the commands. Put this in a normal code module ..

[blue]Sub ToolsRevisionMarksToggle()
    MsgBox "No Chance!"
End Sub

Sub ToolsRecordMacroToggle()
    MsgBox "No Chance here, either!"
End Sub[/blue]

The real solution is to make your code so that normal facilities of Word don't interfere with it, of course.

Enjoy,
Tony

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[SpyderMan1234]

Thanks Tony

I never would have thought of something as simple as ToolsRecordMacroToggle. I'll see how this works with what I've got going.

Many, many thanks

Jeff