Make Mini Formatting Toolbar Stop Popping Up in Word 2007
One of the biggest new changes in Office 2007 is the new mini toolbar that pops up when you highlight text and either right-click or move your mouse up.
If you find the mini toolbar enhancement distracting, you'll be glad to know you can disable it from automatically popping up when you select text.
Click the Office Button in the upper left hand corner and select "Word Options" from the resulting menu to get to the Word Options dialog.
In this dialog, select Popular and uncheck the "Show Mini Toolbar on selection" option.
You can still get access to the Mini Toolbar by right clicking the highlighted text or anywhere on your document… it's not possible to disable that.
Mysticgeek is the resident IT expert at How-To Geek and a huge rock music fan. When he's not writing about Microsoft Office, he's probably writing at his personal blog. This article was written on 05/22/07 and tagged with: Microsoft Office
THANK YOU!!!! I've been trying to get rid of that thing for ages!
@ Jeff Bridges your certainly welcome! Now that I am one year into Office 2007 I actually rely on mini toolbar all the time now without thinking about it. Unless I am in Office 2003 and I think … "hey where did that go? oh … yeah".