Re: The small but annoying mystery of the ever present toolbar

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ThreeLeggedDog, I suffer from exactly the problem you described, but
none of the replies provided an obvious solution. Did you ever find a
solution? Alanf

ThreeLeggedDog wrote:
> *I loaded the American Heritage® Dictionary, 4th Ed. with thesaurus
> on
> to my hard drive. Great dictionary but the program has one little
> persistent problem. Automatically it loads a toolbar (Houghton
> Mifflin Company) with an icon into Word 2003. The icon is useful
> but
> the toolbar forms a third line, underneath Standard and Formatting,
> and can not be adjusted. No matter what I do, when I close and then
> restart Word the toolbar is back in the exact same spot. Things I
> have tried:
>
> Tools/Customize/Toolbars - Only works for the particular session.
> Toolbar returns after having been deleted.
>
> Tools/Templates and Add-ins/Organizer/Toolbar - "Houghton Mifflin
> Company" is not listed as a toolbar. Toolbars I've made as a test
> can
> be deleted.
>
> Regedit - Doing a search in the registry for "AHD4withThesaurus"
> (the
> directory on my hard drive where the program is stored) returned
> this
> listing:
>
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet
> Explorer\Extensions\{CB9CDC2D-0AB4-4031-A1F7-E9B4070CE521}
>
> Deleting it took care of the toolbar but of course caused an error,
> "eReference Embedding Error." Naturally, there is no documentation
> on
> the net or on the Microsoft website for such an error. Reloading
> the
> American Heritage program gets rid of the error and, of course,
> returns the toolbar.
>
> I'd like to keep the toolbar but I want to be able to move it to a
> location on the screen and have it stay there. Three lines of
> toolbars and the one line of Menu items is too much. Anyone have
> any
> ideas? *



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