Fix problem with Excel on Mac

The problem is caused by Adobe Acrobat installing files in the different startup folders of the Microsoft Office applications. The soultion was to remove the following files:

/Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Startup/Excel/PDFMaker.xla
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Startup/PowerPoint/PDFMaker.ppa
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Startup/Word/PDFMaker.dot

This solution removes the PDF maker menu from Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. The problem is that Acrobat reinstalls them next time Acrobat is started. To avoid it, do this in your prompt:

chmod -R 500 /Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ 2004/Office/Startup

You can later unlock this if an update needs to install some stuff here. Description found in different postings at:

http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20041014003951563

An alternative solution is described here (scroll down to #18):

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=92701

November 26 2004 (aa)