Don’t Show Clipboard in Microsoft Office

Problem: If you copy something to the clipboard twice in any part of Microsoft Office 2000 a tiny “Clipboard” toolbar will appear. This toolbar, covers your work and requires that you stop what you’re doing to close it or move it out of the way. It’s not only annoying, but it’s practically impossible to turn off.

Solution: Run the Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE) Reg hack.

1. Expand the branches to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Office\ 9.0\ Common\ General.

2. If any of these branches aren’t there, just create them – one by one – by selecting New and then Key from the Edit menu.

3. Once you’ve highlighted the General key, select New and then DWORD Value from the Edit menu. As the name of this new key, type AcbControl. Double-click on the new value, select Decimal, type 1 in the Value Data field, and click Ok when you’re done.

This change should take effect immediately.

Congratulations, that annoying pesky little clipboard is still working but now hidden!