I've created a toolbar using Word VBA that's created when Word is launched (using standard methods). The problem is that when I set the up/down state of a button for the current document, the button state in every document is changed: ActiveDocument.CommandBars("MyToolbar".Controls("MyButton".State = msoButtonDown. This is giving me huge performance problems because each open document updates my toolbar in each doc! Words default toolbars don't have this problem. Any ideas?