One less Microsoft Office annoyance

The culprit:

Based on this page, a quick command-line method for permanently removing the Acrobat toolbar from Microsoft Office 2004 on Mac:

cd /Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ 2004/Office/Startup/Excel
rm PDFMaker.xla; touch PDFMaker.xla; chmod 444 PDFMaker.xla
cd ../Word
rm PDFMaker.dot; touch PDFMaker.dot; chmod 444 PDFMaker.dot

God, I hate that sort of unwanted visual crud.

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