>>IMO, toolbar is valuable member of application, and should be used, unless specific strong wishes of your boss/clients.
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>< sigh > Well, two against the toolbar, one for. I don't think it matters much to my boss or my clients. I think I'll try it both ways and see which works better.
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>Thanks,
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>-Michelle

PMFJI and FWIW (and other alphabet soup as appropriate)
Another vote for. Not only is it becoming Windows standard but if you have more than on RTF control on a form then you would still only have one toolbar but the other way you would have as many sets of controls as you do RTF controls.