Disable Acrobat PDFMaker in Microsoft Office

Using the windows registry, you can easily disable or remove the Adobe PDF Creator buttons that Acrobat installs into Word, Excel and other Microsoft Office applications.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Excel\Addins\PDFMaker.OfficeAddin] "LoadBehavior"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Word\Addins\PDFMaker.OfficeAddin] "LoadBehavior"=dword:00000000
You can even remove the PDFMaker from the Add/Remove Programs panel.