vrivera22
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Remove Shortcut to Crystal Reports from Excel
When I installed Crystal Reports 8.5 Developer on my computer, it put a shortcut to Crystal on my Excel toolbar (Version 2000). The toolbar icon creates a separate row on the toolbar instead of being added to an existing row (where there's plenty of room for another icon), even though it's only 1 icon. Everytime I open Excel, I remove the icon from the toolbar, but it always comes back. I even tried to delete the option from the Toolbar Customize screen, but Excel crashes upon closing and the icon is back the next time I open Excel. Even if I move the icon to one of the other rows, it comes back on it's own row the next time Excel is opened!
It's not causing any problems, but it's annoying. I would be happy if I can get it to show on the same row as other icons or if I can get rid of it altogether.
Can anyone help?
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Yep, tried that. Didn't work.
I actually do that everytime I open Excel, but the changes I make to the Crystal toolbar always come back! I have tried everything I can think of (short of uninstalling Crystal, which I won't do).
I actually do that everytime I open Excel, but the changes I make to the Crystal toolbar always come back! I have tried everything I can think of (short of uninstalling Crystal, which I won't do).
Do you have admin rights on your computer? When you exit Excel the settings such as toolbars, etc. are written to a registry entry. This may be a case that you don't have sufficient rights on the system to make this a permanent change?
frodoman
frodoman
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I do have admin rights on my computer. I can make any other changes to the toolbars and it will stick. It's only the changes to the Crystal toolbar that doesn't stick. I even tried to delete from the Customize window and Excel crashed with a 'Rintime error 5, Invalid Procedure Call or argument' when I closed it (closed Excel, not the Customize window).
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THANK-YOU!! Removing the Add-in worked! It's still in the Add-in list, so I can just re-check it if I ever need to use it.
Thanks!
Glad to help - frodoman
You should be able to open Excel, rt-click on the toolbar, and uncheck the "Crystal" option. Then close Excel.
Your other option is to rt-click on the toolbar, select customize, then uncheck Crystal from the Toolbars tab.
HTH
frodoman