Toolbar lock

Hi, I have been following your question because I would like to know of a way to do just that. Unfortunately, it seems that there is no way to do this. I searched the MS site and was unable to come up with an answer, although it did yeild lots of information about Word 97--your version. You can check those sites out at:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q172674

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q157464

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q181471

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I think that the best way to prevent this movement is to train your users on how to relocate a moved bar or how to turn a bar back on once it's accidentally turned off. You will always have some users that fear using the PC so much that they will need to be shown how to do it several times. Fortunately, it doesn't take long to do.
Toolbar visible but mislocated: either double click on the blue title bar to re-set or move cursor to gray double ridge at beginning of bar until mouse cursor changes to double cross and drag to where you want it.
Toolbar gone: go into the View menu, choose Toolbars and make sure that the ones wanted are checked. In Word I find people mostly want the Standard and Advanced and sometimes the Formatting toolbars.

This type of training benefits them as well as you in regards to future support and is applicable to other Windows programs in addition to Word. I know this isn't the answer you wanted, but I hope it helps.