disable toolbar selection

[klav]

I have a protected form for which I display customized toolbars. How can I
disable the user from being able to right click in the menu bar area and
selecting other toolbars to display?

 

[Charles Kenyon]

If macros are active, you can use AutoNew and AutoOpen macros to disable the
other toolbars.

i.e. Application.CommandBars("Formatting").Enabled = False

However, this is extreme and you need a way to reenable the ones you disable
when your document is closed because this setting is application-wide rather
than document or template specific.

You could customize the other toolbars in your template so that they don't
have any commands or buttons, I suppose. That, at least, can be made
template-specific.
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[klav]

Thanks -- I do have application events associated with this template so if I
disabled all the toolbars (such as standard, formatting, etc.), I could
restore them when the user opens another instance of Word or switches to a
document which is not my protected form.

Just curious, however, is there a way to prevent the user from being able to
right-click in the menu bar area?

 

[Charles Kenyon]

AFAIK the only way to prevent the user from right-clicking in the menu area
to get the toolbars is to tie his/her hands behind the back so that the
mouse is not used when the screen is in view. This could probably be
defeated by mirrors, though.

<g>

OTOH most users don't know that they can right-click to get toolbars.
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