Disable or Override Ribbon/CommandBar commands in MSWord using VBA?

Iain, this is a pretty common need. Here's a good information page on what will get you started: Using VBA to Control Built-In Commands in the 2007 Office System.

Sorry for the late response, I asked the question a while ago and ended up coming at the problem from another angle. However, your response is very useful and I will keep it saved for whenever I have to do this sort of thing again. VBA is really not my strong suit, haha :).

Thanks very much for taking the time to respond to my question, very much appreciated. - Iain – Iain Fraser Feb 15 '10 at 0:04.

I think you could write a macro that removed tools from the toolbar, menus, maybe even keyboard shortcuts. Not sure how you'd reverse it though when they opened another document. Maybe a better solution is to use an application to edit only certain text fields that you define and which ultimately change text in a word document?

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