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November 18, 2005
Disabling 1-Button PDF Creators in Word, Excel and Outlook
Turning On/Off the One-Button PDF Creators in Word, Outlook and Excel
The one-button PDF Creators that Acrobat installs into Word, Excel and Outlook and other Office applications are perhaps the best way to create compact PDF files that offer additional features.
However, some older Document Management Systems do not offer support for the one-button PDF creators. Some large law firms use anywhere from 8-10 different macro additions s to Word, any of which could potentially conflict with the Acrobat add-ins.
If you run into compatibility issues with the one-button PDF Creators, first ensure that you are running version 7.05 of Acrobat. You can download the updates here.
Disabling One-Button PDF Writers
The best way is to go through Add/Remove Programs to disable PDFMaker functionality. You can also remove this functionality at Install time.
For IT folks, you can "tune" a version of Acrobat without the one-button PDF creators and push it to your client desktops. Acrobat Tuner 7 can be found at here.
Additional deployment resources are listed below.
You can also turn the feature off vai the registry.
Obligatory Registry Warning: Editing the registry can seriously mess up your computer if you do not do it correct!
Excel
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Excel\Addins\PDFMaker.OfficeAddin] "LoadBehavior"=dword:00000000
Word
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Word\Addins\PDFMaker.OfficeAddin] "LoadBehavior"=dword:00000000
Outlook
There are two different toolbars on Outlook: “Attach as PDF” toolbar in the new e-mail window and “Email to PDF” in main Outlook window.
The registry keys to control visibility of toolbars are:
Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat\PDFMaker\7.0\Outlook\AttachAsPDF
Value Name: OutlVisible
Value: 0
Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat\PDFMaker\7.0\Outlook\EmailToPDF
Value Name: OutlVisible
Value: 0
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