PDFMaker 5.0 disappearing in Office XP 1

[linhawaii]

I have a laptop running Windows XP Pro and Office XP. This machine also has the full version of Adobe Acrobat 5.0 installed, so while using Word the person can just click on the PDFMaker icons that appear as a toolbar to convert their Word doc to Adobe.

The problem is that when you exit Word, the PDFMaker icons (toolbar)disappear. I have tried to uninstall and reinstall Acrobat many times, but the trouble continues. It's like Word loses the fact that Acrobat was ever loaded. When Acrobat is working properly in Word, next to the Help item in the main menu bar, the word Acrobat is listed and when you click on it there are some options available.

When Adobe has trouble the menu item Acrobat and the PDFMaker toolbar icons disappear...

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Murgle]

Start up Word, then go to Tools->Templates and Add-ins - there should be a list of available items - the checked ones are currently loaded - there should be one called PDFMaker.dot. If it is not checked, then check it - if it is not in the list, click add and browse for it, add it to the list and check it.

If this doesn't work then I'm at a loss - I've never used any XP apps. Ahhhhh, I see you have a machine that goes Bing!