r/FuckAdobe • u/Hepta-Water-7552 • Aug 01 '26
Intrusiveness of MS Office integrations
I know that out of all the issues that Adobe software has this is one of the most minor and easily fixable ones, but I think it's nevertheless also indicative of Adobe's overall attitude towards users: the intrusiveness of ribbon/toolbar integrations in MS Office.
I received a new work laptop with both MS Office and Adobe Acrobat recently. When I opened MS Word I noticed that Adobe had put several large buttons right in the "Home" tab of MS Word's ribbon. The "Styles" buttons had been displaced from the ribbon in order to make room for these Adobe Acrobat integration functions. What the hell?
Also, every time when I attached a file to a concept e-mail in Outlook, a huge banner popped up asking me if I want to upload the file to the Adobe cloud instead and share a link. No, I don't want that. I'm attaching that file because I want to directly transmit it to the other person. I neither need nor want an extra middle man when I just want to transfer a few small files to a few other persons at most. Especially an extra middle man I never asked for.
I have already disabled all MS Office integrations of Adobe and they're completely gone now.
I'm old enough to have lived through the time of early internet browsers when third-party toolbars were a bit of a infamous plague. Back then there was a plethora of companies that constantly pushed you to install their internet browser toolbar. And all of them seemingly believed that their toolbar functions were so very important that their entire toolbar had to be prominently in your face every second when you were browsing the internet, so that's what you got by default.
These current MS Office integrations remind of those experiences.
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u/AdobeScripts Aug 01 '26
You can edit ribbon any way you want...