Question : How to show/hide the Acrobat ribbon tab programatically in MS Access 2007.

Adobe Acrobat is installed on my users' computers, and in each Office 2007 application it shows up as a ribbon tab.  In MS Access 2007 I have a database in which I've created a custom ribbon tab.  It has a button that toggles between hiding all default ribbon tabs (Home, Create, Database Tools, etc.) and showing them.  The code works great on all the default Microsoft tabs, such as:
       <tab idMso="TabCreate" getVisible="showBuiltinTabs" />  [Callback that resolves to boolean]
However, I cannot figure out how to hide/show the Adobe Acrobat tab.  Perhaps I just need the tab ID, but after much online searching cannot find what that would be, and am not sure if I'd even be able to address it this way.

Upon startup I want to load all the default Microsoft tabs, so do NOT want to use StartFromScratch="true" in my XML.  I also do NOT want to go to Access Options->Add-ins and disable the add-in, as that would disable it for all the users' databases, whereas I just want it disabled for this particular one.

Is there a way to do what I want?

Answer : How to show/hide the Acrobat ribbon tab programatically in MS Access 2007.

In case there is no other workaround...

Unless you need some Adobe specific functionality, you could just uninstall it, and Install one of the many other fine PDF utilities.

Or...
For example, all I do in Access with PDF's is to create them for output.
For this I only need the PDF addin for MS Access:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f1fc413c-6d89-4f15-991b-63b07ba5f2e5&displaylang=en

You can just install the free Adobe Acrobat reader to view PDF files
(Which does not install it's own Ribbon tab)

;-)

JeffCoachman
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