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Help with type a question box.
I can't seem to get any help on removing this box from either excel, word, or
outlook. I have read other post that just recite the same stuff about right clicking and unchecking the show the box. I don't have this box and never have had it. I have many others. I have tried the suggestion that I had googled for in which the MVP said to go to Customize then in the Toolbar tab select Menu Bar and then click properties. The problem there is that I have no properties to click. All I have is reset or keyboard on the bottom. To the right I have New, Rename, Delete and Reset, but no properties at all. I am using Office 2003 |
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If your reading skills are on par with your writing, it's not surprising
that you've not understood the help instructions. What on earth are you talking about? "spysmily1" wrote in message ... I can't seem to get any help on removing this box from either excel, word, or outlook. I have read other post that just recite the same stuff about right clicking and unchecking the show the box. I don't have this box and never have had it. I have many others. I have tried the suggestion that I had googled for in which the MVP said to go to Customize then in the Toolbar tab select Menu Bar and then click properties. The problem there is that I have no properties to click. All I have is reset or keyboard on the bottom. To the right I have New, Rename, Delete and Reset, but no properties at all. I am using Office 2003 |
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I'm sorry was I speaking..er..typing too fast for you?
I can't seem to get any help on removing this box from either excel, word, or outlook. //This box being the type a question box that is in the top right part of the toolbar. Sorry this is not a picture book so can't help you there if you need images. I have read other post that just recite the same stuff about right clicking and unchecking the show the box. I don't have this box and never have had it. I have many others. //In this part of the post I am informing anyone who reads this to not recommend doing this step, I've already tried. I have tried the suggestion that I had googled for in which the MVP said to go to Customize then in the Toolbar tab select Menu Bar and then click properties. The problem there is that I have no properties to click. All I have is reset or keyboard on the bottom. To the right I have New, Rename, Delete and Reset, but no properties at all. //Once again I'm giving you the reader info on another solution I have tried but at the same time giving more details as to why I couldn't complete the steps given to me. MVP stands for Most Valuable Professional. Googled means that I used the Google search engine for anything that related to my issue. You type words into a form box and it returns results. I am using Office 2003 //This lets you know what version of Office I am using so you can apply your advice to my product correctly. Once more I apologize for not including pictures and such, as I can tell you probably read books with lots of pictures. Picture this, the MVP is probably a male or female of Indian descent since this is where MS outsources their customer support to. The type a question box is amid a cluttered menu that sits at the topmost part of any Office application. Google is a webpage that is plain except for a few links and a form box near the middle. I'm sorry if you don't like the tone of my response but if I were to type a**hole, redneck, unhelpful, ignorant into Google it would lead me to this page and pinpoint your response. |
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No, this is not a picture book, so, we rely on your power of description.
Which so far has failed you. What is "this box" ? "spysmily1" wrote in message ... I'm sorry was I speaking..er..typing too fast for you? I can't seem to get any help on removing this box from either excel, word, or outlook. //This box being the type a question box that is in the top right part of the toolbar. Sorry this is not a picture book so can't help you there if you need images. I have read other post that just recite the same stuff about right clicking and unchecking the show the box. I don't have this box and never have had it. I have many others. //In this part of the post I am informing anyone who reads this to not recommend doing this step, I've already tried. I have tried the suggestion that I had googled for in which the MVP said to go to Customize then in the Toolbar tab select Menu Bar and then click properties. The problem there is that I have no properties to click. All I have is reset or keyboard on the bottom. To the right I have New, Rename, Delete and Reset, but no properties at all. //Once again I'm giving you the reader info on another solution I have tried but at the same time giving more details as to why I couldn't complete the steps given to me. MVP stands for Most Valuable Professional. Googled means that I used the Google search engine for anything that related to my issue. You type words into a form box and it returns results. I am using Office 2003 //This lets you know what version of Office I am using so you can apply your advice to my product correctly. Once more I apologize for not including pictures and such, as I can tell you probably read books with lots of pictures. Picture this, the MVP is probably a male or female of Indian descent since this is where MS outsources their customer support to. The type a question box is amid a cluttered menu that sits at the topmost part of any Office application. Google is a webpage that is plain except for a few links and a form box near the middle. I'm sorry if you don't like the tone of my response but if I were to type a**hole, redneck, unhelpful, ignorant into Google it would lead me to this page and pinpoint your response. |
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Do you guys read the post you are clicking? It says Help with ----type a
question box----- if you guys actually used any Office 2003 product you would know what I was talking about. Maybe if I was talking about accessibility features(particularly the vision features) you could provide much needed help, until you can provide help I would suggest you not respond. "Jezebel" wrote: No, this is not a picture book, so, we rely on your power of description. Which so far has failed you. What is "this box" ? "spysmily1" wrote in message ... I'm sorry was I speaking..er..typing too fast for you? I can't seem to get any help on removing this box from either excel, word, or outlook. //This box being the type a question box that is in the top right part of the toolbar. Sorry this is not a picture book so can't help you there if you need images. I have read other post that just recite the same stuff about right clicking and unchecking the show the box. I don't have this box and never have had it. I have many others. //In this part of the post I am informing anyone who reads this to not recommend doing this step, I've already tried. I have tried the suggestion that I had googled for in which the MVP said to go to Customize then in the Toolbar tab select Menu Bar and then click properties. The problem there is that I have no properties to click. All I have is reset or keyboard on the bottom. To the right I have New, Rename, Delete and Reset, but no properties at all. //Once again I'm giving you the reader info on another solution I have tried but at the same time giving more details as to why I couldn't complete the steps given to me. MVP stands for Most Valuable Professional. Googled means that I used the Google search engine for anything that related to my issue. You type words into a form box and it returns results. I am using Office 2003 //This lets you know what version of Office I am using so you can apply your advice to my product correctly. Once more I apologize for not including pictures and such, as I can tell you probably read books with lots of pictures. Picture this, the MVP is probably a male or female of Indian descent since this is where MS outsources their customer support to. The type a question box is amid a cluttered menu that sits at the topmost part of any Office application. Google is a webpage that is plain except for a few links and a form box near the middle. I'm sorry if you don't like the tone of my response but if I were to type a**hole, redneck, unhelpful, ignorant into Google it would lead me to this page and pinpoint your response. |
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Happy to answer your question if you can find it within your linguistic
competence to ask it meaningfully. But if you choose to write gibberish, you can hardly complain if no-one knows what the f*k you're talking about. "spysmily1" wrote in message ... Do you guys read the post you are clicking? It says Help with ----type a question box----- if you guys actually used any Office 2003 product you would know what I was talking about. Maybe if I was talking about accessibility features(particularly the vision features) you could provide much needed help, until you can provide help I would suggest you not respond. "Jezebel" wrote: No, this is not a picture book, so, we rely on your power of description. Which so far has failed you. What is "this box" ? "spysmily1" wrote in message ... I'm sorry was I speaking..er..typing too fast for you? I can't seem to get any help on removing this box from either excel, word, or outlook. //This box being the type a question box that is in the top right part of the toolbar. Sorry this is not a picture book so can't help you there if you need images. I have read other post that just recite the same stuff about right clicking and unchecking the show the box. I don't have this box and never have had it. I have many others. //In this part of the post I am informing anyone who reads this to not recommend doing this step, I've already tried. I have tried the suggestion that I had googled for in which the MVP said to go to Customize then in the Toolbar tab select Menu Bar and then click properties. The problem there is that I have no properties to click. All I have is reset or keyboard on the bottom. To the right I have New, Rename, Delete and Reset, but no properties at all. //Once again I'm giving you the reader info on another solution I have tried but at the same time giving more details as to why I couldn't complete the steps given to me. MVP stands for Most Valuable Professional. Googled means that I used the Google search engine for anything that related to my issue. You type words into a form box and it returns results. I am using Office 2003 //This lets you know what version of Office I am using so you can apply your advice to my product correctly. Once more I apologize for not including pictures and such, as I can tell you probably read books with lots of pictures. Picture this, the MVP is probably a male or female of Indian descent since this is where MS outsources their customer support to. The type a question box is amid a cluttered menu that sits at the topmost part of any Office application. Google is a webpage that is plain except for a few links and a form box near the middle. I'm sorry if you don't like the tone of my response but if I were to type a**hole, redneck, unhelpful, ignorant into Google it would lead me to this page and pinpoint your response. |
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Help with type a question box.
There is no type a question box.
Linguistically a text is more than just words scrambled together at random. I was baffled by what you are heading for, too. There is a dropdown-listbox, usually in the upper right hand corner, the default text of which is "Type a question for help", which vanishes with hiding the menu bar manually. Then build your own "MyMenuBar". -- Greetings from Bavaria, Germany Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA Win XP, Office 2003 "red.sys" & Chr$(64) & "t-online.de" |
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spysmily1 wrote:
Picture this, the MVP is probably a male or female of Indian descent since this is where MS outsources their customer support to. This is a user peer group forum. MVPs are not employed by Microsoft but are people who volunteer their time and expertise to assist fellow users. Where they come from is irrelevant, but they are based all over the world wherever people live and can access the internet. Jezebel is a user who prefers to remain anonymous. If he/she cannot be contacted, then he/she could not be nominated to be an MVP. MVP or not we are not mind readers and we don't know which 'box' you are talking about; but if you mean the help tool at the top right of the menu bar, then this cannot be removed. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org |
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I was just joking about the MVP part it was in reference to the fact that
Jezebel was acting like a smart by the statements he chose. If either he/she or you read the topic heading it stated ---type a question box----. To a user of an Office 2003 product this would be very evident to what I was talking about. Instead of taking the time to wear the bifocals that are on his or her desk and actually reading the topic header, this person instead chose to comment on my intelligence and at the same time exploiting his or her ignorance. All while providing no help. You did provide help even though chosing not to read the topic header to find out what I was refering to. Since you say that the box can't be removed then why is stated that it can be hidden in the help document? "Graham Mayor" wrote: spysmily1 wrote: Picture this, the MVP is probably a male or female of Indian descent since this is where MS outsources their customer support to. This is a user peer group forum. MVPs are not employed by Microsoft but are people who volunteer their time and expertise to assist fellow users. Where they come from is irrelevant, but they are based all over the world wherever people live and can access the internet. Jezebel is a user who prefers to remain anonymous. If he/she cannot be contacted, then he/she could not be nominated to be an MVP. MVP or not we are not mind readers and we don't know which 'box' you are talking about; but if you mean the help tool at the top right of the menu bar, then this cannot be removed. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org |
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Hmmm. If you had discovered that in help then you would - like me - have
discovered also how to hide it. Tools customize - right click the box. I'm not sure you would want to hide the help tool that would have given you the information you required? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org spysmily1 wrote: I was just joking about the MVP part it was in reference to the fact that Jezebel was acting like a smart by the statements he chose. If either he/she or you read the topic heading it stated ---type a question box----. To a user of an Office 2003 product this would be very evident to what I was talking about. Instead of taking the time to wear the bifocals that are on his or her desk and actually reading the topic header, this person instead chose to comment on my intelligence and at the same time exploiting his or her ignorance. All while providing no help. You did provide help even though chosing not to read the topic header to find out what I was refering to. Since you say that the box can't be removed then why is stated that it can be hidden in the help document? "Graham Mayor" wrote: spysmily1 wrote: Picture this, the MVP is probably a male or female of Indian descent since this is where MS outsources their customer support to. This is a user peer group forum. MVPs are not employed by Microsoft but are people who volunteer their time and expertise to assist fellow users. Where they come from is irrelevant, but they are based all over the world wherever people live and can access the internet. Jezebel is a user who prefers to remain anonymous. If he/she cannot be contacted, then he/she could not be nominated to be an MVP. MVP or not we are not mind readers and we don't know which 'box' you are talking about; but if you mean the help tool at the top right of the menu bar, then this cannot be removed. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org |
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I've just looked at the Word Help topic "Show or hide the Type a question
for help box." It says: 1. On the Tools menu, click Customize. 2. On the menu bar, right-click the Type a question for help box. 3. Select or deselect Show Ask A Question Box to show or hide it. Note If you are hiding the Type a question for help box, it will still display until after you close the Customize dialog box. What this means is that you must have the Customize dialog open, but you're not actually clicking anything *in* the Customize dialog. You're right-clicking the "Type a question for help" box itself. You get a menu with a single item: "Show Ask a Question Box." It has a check mark beside it. Presumably if you click on it, you will remove the box, but, having already read the replies posted here by other MVPs, I'm loath to experiment with it, since there doesn't seem to be any easy way to get it back. I take it that you can't just right-click on the menu bar to get this option? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "spysmily1" wrote in message ... I can't seem to get any help on removing this box from either excel, word, or outlook. I have read other post that just recite the same stuff about right clicking and unchecking the show the box. I don't have this box and never have had it. I have many others. I have tried the suggestion that I had googled for in which the MVP said to go to Customize then in the Toolbar tab select Menu Bar and then click properties. The problem there is that I have no properties to click. All I have is reset or keyboard on the bottom. To the right I have New, Rename, Delete and Reset, but no properties at all. I am using Office 2003 |
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Hi Suzanne,
Not to worry While the 'ask a question' box is an Office wide feature, you can use the same technique in Word, Excel and Powerpoint to turn it off individually in each app. If you have right clicked on the 'Ask a Question' box and then left clicked the 'Show...' choice that appears, while Word's Tools=Customize dialog is open when you close the Tools=Customize dialog then the 'question' box will not be visible. If you the reopen the Tools=Customize dialog the 'question box' will be visible when the dialog is opened and you can right click it and again select 'Show...' the dialog box should stay visible when closing the Tools=Customize dialog. It is possible that this is another area where add-ins could cause interference, but the settings are saved in the registry. =============== "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I've just looked at the Word Help topic "Show or hide the Type a question for help box." It says: 1. On the Tools menu, click Customize. 2. On the menu bar, right-click the Type a question for help box. 3. Select or deselect Show Ask A Question Box to show or hide it. Note If you are hiding the Type a question for help box, it will still display until after you close the Customize dialog box. What this means is that you must have the Customize dialog open, but you're not actually clicking anything *in* the Customize dialog. You're right-clicking the "Type a question for help" box itself. You get a menu with a single item: "Show Ask a Question Box." It has a check mark beside it. Presumably if you click on it, you will remove the box, but, having already read the replies posted here by other MVPs, I'm loath to experiment with it, since there doesn't seem to be any easy way to get it back. I take it that you can't just right-click on the menu bar to get this option? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "spysmily1" wrote in message ... I can't seem to get any help on removing this box from either excel, word, or outlook. I have read other post that just recite the same stuff about right clicking and unchecking the show the box. I don't have this box and never have had it. I have many others. I have tried the suggestion that I had googled for in which the MVP said to go to Customize then in the Toolbar tab select Menu Bar and then click properties. The problem there is that I have no properties to click. All I have is reset or keyboard on the bottom. To the right I have New, Rename, Delete and Reset, but no properties at all. I am using Office 2003 |
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Hey Bob,
The problem I'm facing is that I have no option when rightclicking the box to show or hide the only options I get when right clicking anywhere is to turn off all the other stuff like formatting, standard, autotext, etc. I am starting from a fresh and updated from Microsoft install without any other addins, addons, etc. Btw, I don't have any of those entries in my registries. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\C ommon\Toolbars\Settings Settings is the last folder and it only has one entry. Thx for reply though "Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote: Hi Suzanne, Not to worry While the 'ask a question' box is an Office wide feature, you can use the same technique in Word, Excel and Powerpoint to turn it off individually in each app. If you have right clicked on the 'Ask a Question' box and then left clicked the 'Show...' choice that appears, while Word's Tools=Customize dialog is open when you close the Tools=Customize dialog then the 'question' box will not be visible. If you the reopen the Tools=Customize dialog the 'question box' will be visible when the dialog is opened and you can right click it and again select 'Show...' the dialog box should stay visible when closing the Tools=Customize dialog. It is possible that this is another area where add-ins could cause interference, but the settings are saved in the registry. =============== "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I've just looked at the Word Help topic "Show or hide the Type a question for help box." It says: 1. On the Tools menu, click Customize. 2. On the menu bar, right-click the Type a question for help box. 3. Select or deselect Show Ask A Question Box to show or hide it. Note If you are hiding the Type a question for help box, it will still display until after you close the Customize dialog box. What this means is that you must have the Customize dialog open, but you're not actually clicking anything *in* the Customize dialog. You're right-clicking the "Type a question for help" box itself. You get a menu with a single item: "Show Ask a Question Box." It has a check mark beside it. Presumably if you click on it, you will remove the box, but, having already read the replies posted here by other MVPs, I'm loath to experiment with it, since there doesn't seem to be any easy way to get it back. I take it that you can't just right-click on the menu bar to get this option? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "spysmily1" wrote in message ... I can't seem to get any help on removing this box from either excel, word, or outlook. I have read other post that just recite the same stuff about right clicking and unchecking the show the box. I don't have this box and never have had it. I have many others. I have tried the suggestion that I had googled for in which the MVP said to go to Customize then in the Toolbar tab select Menu Bar and then click properties. The problem there is that I have no properties to click. All I have is reset or keyboard on the bottom. To the right I have New, Rename, Delete and Reset, but no properties at all. I am using Office 2003 |
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Assuming that there aren't any group policies or custom install restrictions applied and that's not an outdated mouse driver, which
can look like you're clicking one place, but be a bit 'off' when you click the 'Ask a question box' with the Tools=Customize dialog open there should be at least one Reg_Binary key in that toolbars entry for each Office app installed. You may want to try exporting then deleting that registry key, then doing a repair/reinstall from Add/Remove Programs in the Windows control panel and check the settings there to see that the help wizard items are installed. ========== "spysmily1" wrote in message ... Hey Bob, The problem I'm facing is that I have no option when rightclicking the box to show or hide the only options I get when right clicking anywhere is to turn off all the other stuff like formatting, standard, autotext, etc. I am starting from a fresh and updated from Microsoft install without any other addins, addons, etc. Btw, I don't have any of those entries in my registries. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\C ommon\Toolbars\Settings Settings is the last folder and it only has one entry. Thx for reply though -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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Thx for reply as you were right about clicking the right place, probably
mouse problem as it was very picky on where to click. I still don't have those registry entries but doesn't seem to be a problem yet. You were very helpful Bob. "Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote: Assuming that there aren't any group policies or custom install restrictions applied and that's not an outdated mouse driver, which can look like you're clicking one place, but be a bit 'off' when you click the 'Ask a question box' with the Tools=Customize dialog open there should be at least one Reg_Binary key in that toolbars entry for each Office app installed. You may want to try exporting then deleting that registry key, then doing a repair/reinstall from Add/Remove Programs in the Windows control panel and check the settings there to see that the help wizard items are installed. ========== "spysmily1" wrote in message ... Hey Bob, The problem I'm facing is that I have no option when rightclicking the box to show or hide the only options I get when right clicking anywhere is to turn off all the other stuff like formatting, standard, autotext, etc. I am starting from a fresh and updated from Microsoft install without any other addins, addons, etc. Btw, I don't have any of those entries in my registries. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\C ommon\Toolbars\Settings Settings is the last folder and it only has one entry. Thx for reply though -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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