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Toolbar behaviour and look changed
I'm thinking this may be a template problem, but before I blow away my
customized NORMAL.DOT template and replace it with the standard one, I'd like to get this group's opinion! Recently, the toolbars changed slightly. The ones I can specifically identify a 1. The Tables tool options changed, and no longer include "Draw Table." 2. When I click the hot-keys for Table (alt-A), the Table entry on the toolbar becomes highlighted, but the menu doesn't drop down. All the other menus do drop down, but for the Table menu I have to also hit the down-arrow to get the menu to drop. This is annoying me severely (!), and is not how things are spoze to work! Any ideas? I haven't installed anything that I can think of that should have changed these behaviours! Thank you! |
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Hi Grace
First problem: Do Tools Customize. On the Options tab, you can choose whether to show full menus. The alternative is what is known as "adaptive menus". If Adaptive Menus is in use, menu items you have not used recently won't show up until you mouse over the "Expand" button at the bottom of each toolbar. I find that infuriating, so I always tick the box to tell Word to show me all the menu items all the time. If that doesn't solve the problem, try reinstating the Table Draw command to the Table menu. To do that, do Tools Customize. On the Commands tab, in the Categories list, choose Table. In the Commands list, find Draw Table and drag it to your Table menu. If that doesn't solve the problem, then do Tools Customize. On the Toolbars tab, click the Menu Bar entry and click Reset. This will reset the menu bar to its original state. If you have made customizations to the Menu Bar itself, they'll be lost unless you first create your own toolbar and move your customizations to it. Finally, there's further information at My menus and toolbars are missing and won't come back http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErr...ngMenusEtc.htm Second problem: Try doing Alt-A, and then do Alt-A again. It's possible that somewhere on your screen is another toolbar with another button which also has A as its shortcut key. And Word just toggles between the two until you make a choice. So you may need to get rid of the other toolbar, or its button. Or, use Tools Customize to change the other toolbar button's shortcut key. Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "Grace L. Judson" wrote in message ... I'm thinking this may be a template problem, but before I blow away my customized NORMAL.DOT template and replace it with the standard one, I'd like to get this group's opinion! Recently, the toolbars changed slightly. The ones I can specifically identify a 1. The Tables tool options changed, and no longer include "Draw Table." 2. When I click the hot-keys for Table (alt-A), the Table entry on the toolbar becomes highlighted, but the menu doesn't drop down. All the other menus do drop down, but for the Table menu I have to also hit the down-arrow to get the menu to drop. This is annoying me severely (!), and is not how things are spoze to work! Any ideas? I haven't installed anything that I can think of that should have changed these behaviours! Thank you! |