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Floating Toolbar in a Table
One of the ladies I work with (not an expert Word user) just had something
totally bizarre happen in a Word document. I wasn't able to help her get rid of it, so I'm curious whether any of you have seen this glitch before or know what caused it. She was editing text in a table, when a small floating toolbar that contained the 9 justification options for table cells "appeared" in the middle of the table. This toolbar had five dots instead of a title. I could drag it to a different position, where the title would say "Cell A." But as soon as we tried to do anything else in the document, the toolbar would jump back to its original position with the 5 dots in the title area. Right-clicking on this little floating toolbar did nothing, and neither mouse commands nor keyboard commands would do anything anywhere else in the document. We could not place the cursor in the document. We couldn't do anything to get rid of it or edit the document with it present. I would have liked to have played with it a little longer, but she clicked the close button, and that worked, even though none of the menus had worked. When we reopened the document our mystery toolbar was gone. Have any of you seen anything like that before? (I'm betting that one of the MVPs will know exactly what it is.) Thanks, Fred P.S. We use Word 2003 and Windows XP Professional. |
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Floating Toolbar in a Table
This sounds like a "tearoff toolbar." Certain portions of certain toolbars
can be dragged off the toolbar to become floating toolbars on their own. This one is torn off the Tables and Borders toolbar. You should be able to click the X in the upper right corner of the toolbar to close it. -- 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. "Idaho Word Man" wrote in message ... One of the ladies I work with (not an expert Word user) just had something totally bizarre happen in a Word document. I wasn't able to help her get rid of it, so I'm curious whether any of you have seen this glitch before or know what caused it. She was editing text in a table, when a small floating toolbar that contained the 9 justification options for table cells "appeared" in the middle of the table. This toolbar had five dots instead of a title. I could drag it to a different position, where the title would say "Cell A." But as soon as we tried to do anything else in the document, the toolbar would jump back to its original position with the 5 dots in the title area. Right-clicking on this little floating toolbar did nothing, and neither mouse commands nor keyboard commands would do anything anywhere else in the document. We could not place the cursor in the document. We couldn't do anything to get rid of it or edit the document with it present. I would have liked to have played with it a little longer, but she clicked the close button, and that worked, even though none of the menus had worked. When we reopened the document our mystery toolbar was gone. Have any of you seen anything like that before? (I'm betting that one of the MVPs will know exactly what it is.) Thanks, Fred P.S. We use Word 2003 and Windows XP Professional. |
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Floating Toolbar in a Table
There was no X in the corner. I didn't think tearoff toolbars would lock the
document the way this did. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: This sounds like a "tearoff toolbar." Certain portions of certain toolbars can be dragged off the toolbar to become floating toolbars on their own. This one is torn off the Tables and Borders toolbar. You should be able to click the X in the upper right corner of the toolbar to close it. -- 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. "Idaho Word Man" wrote in message ... One of the ladies I work with (not an expert Word user) just had something totally bizarre happen in a Word document. I wasn't able to help her get rid of it, so I'm curious whether any of you have seen this glitch before or know what caused it. She was editing text in a table, when a small floating toolbar that contained the 9 justification options for table cells "appeared" in the middle of the table. This toolbar had five dots instead of a title. I could drag it to a different position, where the title would say "Cell A." But as soon as we tried to do anything else in the document, the toolbar would jump back to its original position with the 5 dots in the title area. Right-clicking on this little floating toolbar did nothing, and neither mouse commands nor keyboard commands would do anything anywhere else in the document. We could not place the cursor in the document. We couldn't do anything to get rid of it or edit the document with it present. I would have liked to have played with it a little longer, but she clicked the close button, and that worked, even though none of the menus had worked. When we reopened the document our mystery toolbar was gone. Have any of you seen anything like that before? (I'm betting that one of the MVPs will know exactly what it is.) Thanks, Fred P.S. We use Word 2003 and Windows XP Professional. |
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