There was a giant email toolbar that appeared in my instance of Microsoft Word 2002 (correction: Microsoft Word 2003), and turning off all of the toolbars would not remove it.
It’s not immediately obvious how to do it. I searched Google, but there were no good answers on the first page of results. Luckily, it also showed on Groups results, where I found my answer: “Click the E-Mail button on the Standard toolbar to turn it off.”
Here’s a screenshot:
Click that E-mail button, and it’ll disappear. It’s a really stupid design, since it’s inconsistent with the other toolbars. And although it has a “move” draggable area on the left, you can’t actually pull it off and reposition it somewhere else on your screen. It’s pretty much stuck there.
Hope this helps someone.
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This problem was frustrating me. Excellet tip. Thanks.
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Thanks to you Elliot! I agree with you its VERY inconsistent!
I was pulling my hair until I foudn your helpful note! Thanks! -
Thanks for the tip… I’m glad you posted this little pointer. FWIW, it only showed up in one of my docs, which made it even more annoying!
Cheers!
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Cheers, that stopped me pulling what’s left of my hair out. ;@)
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Yes, me too. Thnx
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Thanks! A co-worker was very perplexed when he recieved an attachment with this toolbar.
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Thanks for coming through with the “fix” when MS help was useless!
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great help!
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Oh my gosh thank you SO much, that email thing was bugging the CRAP out of me and I’m pretty savvy with computers so it was killing me that I couldn’t take it off myself! Your advice was very helpful! Thanks again!
Tiffany ^_^ -
Thank you very much! It was taking up way too much space and I couldn’t figure out where it came from. Good riddance!
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Doh! Maybe because I use small icons? I also wasted far to much time trying to stomp this toolzilla.
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thank you mr. lee! i felt like i had some sort of acute visual impairment when this enormous email section appeared… course I couldn’t find any toolbars etc. to turn it off, until i read your page.
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Thank you
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Thanks! I told someone at work that the online help for Microsoft Word wasn’t getting me anywhere and knew that I could get results via Google. Your fix was the first return on my search. Thanks for saving me time!
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Elliot, thank you very much from Managua, Nicaragua.
I had been “googling” for a fix to this problem but hadn’t found any, though some of the results had proven to be amusing if unrelated reading…
Thank you again, and good luck!
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I’m running Word 2002 and it didn’t work. That icon is grayed. Any other suggestions?
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tks elliot. lifesaver.
tks microsoft. for wasting 5 mins of my time. grrrr
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If the E-mail button is grey (non clicable) or if it doesn’t exist.
It most likely that you don’t use Outlook as your default Email client.Go to Internet Options -> Programs and select Outlook (or Outlook Express) as your default Email client, click Ok.
Launch your Word document, you’ll see the little button appears, or go to File->Send to -> Mail recipient to turn the tollbar Off.
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