WD: How to Turn Off the Menu Bar Close Window Button

ID: Q201365

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SUMMARY

In Microsoft Word 97 for Windows, the menu bar command bar has three buttons on the right side. These buttons are assigned to the following Word macro commands:

DocClose
DocMinimize
DocMaximize
DocMove
DocRestore
DocSize

When you create a document window, the buttons are transferred to the document window title bar. To turn off (disable) these buttons, you must modify the Visual Basic for Applications commands listed above.

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To turn off the Close, Size, and Minimize buttons on the menu bar or the document window title bar, follow these steps:

On the Tools menu, click Macro, and then click Macros (shortcut keys ALT+F8).

In the Macro name box, type "DocClose" (without the quotation marks), and then click Create. The Visual Basic Editor window opens, displaying the following code:


Sub DocClose()
   '
   ' DocClose Macro
   ' Prompts to save the document and then closes the active window
   '
   WordBasic.DocClose
End Sub

Type an apostrophe (') at the beginning of each command line in the macro, which will remark them out, as in the line below.
```
  'WordBasic.DocClose 
```

Press ALT+F4 to close the Visual Basic Editor. You have now turned off the DocClose command in Word.

Repeat the above steps for the other commands (listed in the "Symptoms" section) that you want to turn off.

To return to the default Word functionality, you must delete the name of the function you turned off on the menu bar in the Macros dialog box.

Additional query words: vba ActiveWindow WindowState wdWindowStateNormal vbe


Keywords          : kbdta 
Version           : WINDOWS:97
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbhowto kbinfo

Last Reviewed: April 13, 1999