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How do I activate File and Tools on the menu bar?
For some reason these two items on the menu bar are no longer active. They
have worked fine and now they don't. Any ideas. Since i am not able to go into tools I cannot check settings. |
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Try this, Steve:
http://www.officearticles.com/word/r...osoft_word.htm ******************* ~Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Steve Pohlit" Steve wrote in message ... For some reason these two items on the menu bar are no longer active. They have worked fine and now they don't. Any ideas. Since i am not able to go into tools I cannot check settings. |
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Hi Steve,
Are you using a custom template. If you are, It sounds as if someone may have locked you out of those functions. If you are not, you might want to go to Word's Templates directory and delete your normal.dot. and let word create a new one. Note - that if you have customized your normal.dot or saved shortcuts to your normal.dot you should copy it to a new file name. This is the equivilant of deleting it. Word will create a new one. The new normal.dot will not contain any of your customizations. If this works, you will have to re-enter your customizations. Jim -- Never at a loss for Word "Steve Pohlit" wrote: For some reason these two items on the menu bar are no longer active. They have worked fine and now they don't. Any ideas. Since i am not able to go into tools I cannot check settings. |
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Hi Steve-
Unfortunately, the excellent page Anne directed you to approaches only from the direction of the Tools Menu, which you say is among the missing. You can, however, get there in other ways. Go to ViewToolbarsCustomize. This is another way to get to the same dialog box as ToolsCustomize, and you can also get there by right-clicking any menubar/toolbar and selecting Customize. Make certain to click on the name of the menu bar, then click the Reset button. If that doesn't work, go to the Commands page of the dialog box, locate "Built-in Menus' in the commands list and then drag the necessary menus to the menu bar. Should neither of these options get it right, something more 'drastic' may need to be done. Good Luck |:) On 7/22/05 8:45 PM, in article , "Steve Pohlit" Steve wrote: For some reason these two items on the menu bar are no longer active. They have worked fine and now they don't. Any ideas. Since i am not able to go into tools I cannot check settings. |
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Thanks, CyberTaz! I meant to add the right-click thing... have now added it.
******************* ~Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "CyberTaz" wrote in message ... Hi Steve- Unfortunately, the excellent page Anne directed you to approaches only from the direction of the Tools Menu, which you say is among the missing. You can, however, get there in other ways. Go to ViewToolbarsCustomize. This is another way to get to the same dialog box as ToolsCustomize, and you can also get there by right-clicking any menubar/toolbar and selecting Customize. Make certain to click on the name of the menu bar, then click the Reset button. If that doesn't work, go to the Commands page of the dialog box, locate "Built-in Menus' in the commands list and then drag the necessary menus to the menu bar. Should neither of these options get it right, something more 'drastic' may need to be done. Good Luck |:) On 7/22/05 8:45 PM, in article , "Steve Pohlit" Steve wrote: For some reason these two items on the menu bar are no longer active. They have worked fine and now they don't. Any ideas. Since i am not able to go into tools I cannot check settings. |
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No problem, Anne. If _anyone_ could think of _everything_ there would be no
need for anybody else. I'm just glad you didn't mind me 'hijacking' your post Regards |:) On 7/23/05 9:59 PM, in article , "Anne Troy" wrote: Thanks, CyberTaz! I meant to add the right-click thing... have now added it. ******************* ~Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "CyberTaz" wrote in message ... Hi Steve- Unfortunately, the excellent page Anne directed you to approaches only from the direction of the Tools Menu, which you say is among the missing. You can, however, get there in other ways. Go to ViewToolbarsCustomize. This is another way to get to the same dialog box as ToolsCustomize, and you can also get there by right-clicking any menubar/toolbar and selecting Customize. Make certain to click on the name of the menu bar, then click the Reset button. If that doesn't work, go to the Commands page of the dialog box, locate "Built-in Menus' in the commands list and then drag the necessary menus to the menu bar. Should neither of these options get it right, something more 'drastic' may need to be done. Good Luck |:) On 7/22/05 8:45 PM, in article , "Steve Pohlit" Steve wrote: For some reason these two items on the menu bar are no longer active. They have worked fine and now they don't. Any ideas. Since i am not able to go into tools I cannot check settings. |
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Hijack away, baby!! (And if you see anything wrong with my articles--that
is--if you do look--please don't hesitate to yell!) ******************* ~Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "CyberTaz" wrote in message ... No problem, Anne. If _anyone_ could think of _everything_ there would be no need for anybody else. I'm just glad you didn't mind me 'hijacking' your post Regards |:) On 7/23/05 9:59 PM, in article , "Anne Troy" wrote: Thanks, CyberTaz! I meant to add the right-click thing... have now added it. ******************* ~Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "CyberTaz" wrote in message ... Hi Steve- Unfortunately, the excellent page Anne directed you to approaches only from the direction of the Tools Menu, which you say is among the missing. You can, however, get there in other ways. Go to ViewToolbarsCustomize. This is another way to get to the same dialog box as ToolsCustomize, and you can also get there by right-clicking any menubar/toolbar and selecting Customize. Make certain to click on the name of the menu bar, then click the Reset button. If that doesn't work, go to the Commands page of the dialog box, locate "Built-in Menus' in the commands list and then drag the necessary menus to the menu bar. Should neither of these options get it right, something more 'drastic' may need to be done. Good Luck |:) On 7/22/05 8:45 PM, in article , "Steve Pohlit" Steve wrote: For some reason these two items on the menu bar are no longer active. They have worked fine and now they don't. Any ideas. Since i am not able to go into tools I cannot check settings. |
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