I customize my menus and toolbar buttons for ease of use in all the Microsoft
products that I use. The problwem is that wehen I open a spreadsheet,
document or presentation that someone has emailed to me, my menus and
toolbars take on some characteristics of the sender (e.g. adding a 'Reviewing
Toolbar' (which I hate); changing my spreadseehts from R1C1 to A1
orientations; redirceting my default menu to open (in Powerpoint Only),
etc.). How do I stop this from happening - it is EXTREMELY ANNOYING. I am
using Office 2002.

I don't use PPT or MSWord or Access to help with questions there, but...

#1. Reference style:

Excel will pick up the reference style (A1 or R1C1) from the first workbook that
it opens in that session. So if the first workbook you open is in A1 reference
style, then you'll be ok. Maybe you can open one of your own workbooks
first????

#2. Gord Dibben posted this (originally from Jim Rech):

A recent posting from Jim Rech addresses this.

Jim post..................

If the workbook is sent as an attachment to Outlook then File, Properties
are automatically added which will make the Reviewing toolbar appear when
the workbook is opened in Excel. I don't know of a way to stop this.

However, once you open the workbook in Excel you can remove these properties
and save the workbook. After that it will no longer cause the reviewing
toolbar to appear. Here's an old message on that:

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The Reviewing toolbar in Excel pops up whenever you open a workbook that has
been emailed from within Excel "for review". There may be other ways to
make this happen too. If you do a File, Properties you'll see the custom
file properties that have been added that triggers this.

You can kill the added file properties manually or run the below macro to do
it. This macro is in my Personal and attached to a toolbar button because I
feel the same way as you about this toolbar.

--
Jim Rech
Excel MVP

Sub KillReviewingCustProps()
Dim x As DocumentProperties
Dim Counter As Integer
Set x = ActiveWorkbook.CustomDocumentProperties
For Counter = x.Count To 1 Step -1
If Left(x.Item(Counter).Name, 1) = "_" Then _
x.Item(Counter).Delete
Next
CommandBars("Reviewing").Visible = False
End Sub

End Jim post.......................


Needy Ned wrote:

I customize my menus and toolbar buttons for ease of use in all the Microsoft
products that I use. The problwem is that wehen I open a spreadsheet,
document or presentation that someone has emailed to me, my menus and
toolbars take on some characteristics of the sender (e.g. adding a 'Reviewing
Toolbar' (which I hate); changing my spreadseehts from R1C1 to A1
orientations; redirceting my default menu to open (in Powerpoint Only),
etc.). How do I stop this from happening - it is EXTREMELY ANNOYING. I am
using Office 2002.

--

Dave Peterson