We have a vendor-provided corporate application that is integrated into our
Offce 2003 suite (database queries behind the scenes, etc.). The part of the
application that I see is a toolbar in Excel (all machines are WinXP).
Unfortunately, their program is poorly written, and does things like hide
commandbuttons in other workbooks, etc.

When I go into Excel View/Toolbars and click to suppress viewing the
toolbar, it goes away...but the next time Excel is opened, the toolbar comes
back (is automatically visible again). Of course, the presence of the
toolbar itself isn't likely to cause the commandbuttons in other workbooks
to dissapear, but I figure if I can find the code that is auto-showing the
toolbar, I might find the rest of the code as well.

I didn't find any add-ins, nor any files in any startup folders (at least
anywhere I could think of).

So, if you wanted to tick off your customers by figuring out a way to make a
toolbar visible every time Excel starts, how would you do it? I'm asking
because I want to use your ideas to work backwards and figure out where
their code is, so I can figure out a workaround. It is possible that they
might be using some .NET code somewhere that puts the toolbar back anytime
Excel opens, but I wouldn't even know where to look for something like that
if the code isn't in Excel itself. There might also be other directories
where some sort of very hidden add-in might be located that I don't know
about, so any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,
Keith