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Office 2003 won't remember custom menu settings
I installed Office 2003 and I tried to customize the menus but it won't
remember the settings and every time I start one of the applications, the menu icons have all reverted to the default setup. I had this same program working fine before, but since I reformatted and reistalled everything it has not worked. Is there a preferences file that I can delete and let it rebuild itself? I have tried to repair the Office installation twice and even uninstalled and reinstalled the Word component but it made no difference. If I uninstall the entire program and reinstall it, will I also lose the activation or will the computer remember it? Can anyone please advise on what may be wrong? Thanks for any advice. |
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Office 2003 won't remember custom menu settings
Have you ran the "Save my Settings Wizard" tool? Start, Microsoft Office Tools.
-- Mary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Luis Ortega" wrote in message ... I installed Office 2003 and I tried to customize the menus but it won't remember the settings and every time I start one of the applications, the menu icons have all reverted to the default setup. I had this same program working fine before, but since I reformatted and reistalled everything it has not worked. Is there a preferences file that I can delete and let it rebuild itself? I have tried to repair the Office installation twice and even uninstalled and reinstalled the Word component but it made no difference. If I uninstall the entire program and reinstall it, will I also lose the activation or will the computer remember it? Can anyone please advise on what may be wrong? Thanks for any advice. |
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Office 2003 won't remember custom menu settings
Thanks. Yes I did.
If I uninstall all of Office and reinstall, will it need to be activated again? "Mary Sauer" wrote in message ... Have you ran the "Save my Settings Wizard" tool? Start, Microsoft Office Tools. -- Mary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Luis Ortega" wrote in message ... I installed Office 2003 and I tried to customize the menus but it won't remember the settings and every time I start one of the applications, the menu icons have all reverted to the default setup. I had this same program working fine before, but since I reformatted and reistalled everything it has not worked. Is there a preferences file that I can delete and let it rebuild itself? I have tried to repair the Office installation twice and even uninstalled and reinstalled the Word component but it made no difference. If I uninstall the entire program and reinstall it, will I also lose the activation or will the computer remember it? Can anyone please advise on what may be wrong? Thanks for any advice. |
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Office 2003 won't remember custom menu settings
You may have a corrupt registry entry - see
http://www.gmayor.com/my_toolbars_are_missing.htm Start by deleting the toolbars sub key and letting Word build a new one. Next open normal.dot. Make your changes. Add a character to the text space and delete it, then save normal.dot. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Luis Ortega wrote: I installed Office 2003 and I tried to customize the menus but it won't remember the settings and every time I start one of the applications, the menu icons have all reverted to the default setup. I had this same program working fine before, but since I reformatted and reistalled everything it has not worked. Is there a preferences file that I can delete and let it rebuild itself? I have tried to repair the Office installation twice and even uninstalled and reinstalled the Word component but it made no difference. If I uninstall the entire program and reinstall it, will I also lose the activation or will the computer remember it? Can anyone please advise on what may be wrong? Thanks for any advice. |
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Office 2003 won't remember custom menu settings
Does Word remember any other changes to defaults such as changing the font
of page layout? If it doesn't, then I guess that you are probably using Adobe Acrobat Writer or some similar utility (but Acrobat is the usual culprit) that is stopping normal.dot being saved. You can either run Acrobat setup and remove the add-ins or download the latest update top Acrobat that should resolve the problem. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Luis Ortega" wrote in message ... I installed Office 2003 and I tried to customize the menus but it won't remember the settings and every time I start one of the applications, the menu icons have all reverted to the default setup. I had this same program working fine before, but since I reformatted and reistalled everything it has not worked. Is there a preferences file that I can delete and let it rebuild itself? I have tried to repair the Office installation twice and even uninstalled and reinstalled the Word component but it made no difference. If I uninstall the entire program and reinstall it, will I also lose the activation or will the computer remember it? Can anyone please advise on what may be wrong? Thanks for any advice. |
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Office 2003 won't remember custom menu settings
No, it doesn't, and the other programs in Office also don't remember their
tollbar customizations or other default customizations. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... Does Word remember any other changes to defaults such as changing the font of page layout? If it doesn't, then I guess that you are probably using Adobe Acrobat Writer or some similar utility (but Acrobat is the usual culprit) that is stopping normal.dot being saved. You can either run Acrobat setup and remove the add-ins or download the latest update top Acrobat that should resolve the problem. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Luis Ortega" wrote in message ... I installed Office 2003 and I tried to customize the menus but it won't remember the settings and every time I start one of the applications, the menu icons have all reverted to the default setup. I had this same program working fine before, but since I reformatted and reistalled everything it has not worked. Is there a preferences file that I can delete and let it rebuild itself? I have tried to repair the Office installation twice and even uninstalled and reinstalled the Word component but it made no difference. If I uninstall the entire program and reinstall it, will I also lose the activation or will the computer remember it? Can anyone please advise on what may be wrong? Thanks for any advice. |
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Office 2003 won't remember custom menu settings
Thanks. I updated Acrobat and now all is well.
"Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... Does Word remember any other changes to defaults such as changing the font of page layout? If it doesn't, then I guess that you are probably using Adobe Acrobat Writer or some similar utility (but Acrobat is the usual culprit) that is stopping normal.dot being saved. You can either run Acrobat setup and remove the add-ins or download the latest update top Acrobat that should resolve the problem. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Luis Ortega" wrote in message ... I installed Office 2003 and I tried to customize the menus but it won't remember the settings and every time I start one of the applications, the menu icons have all reverted to the default setup. I had this same program working fine before, but since I reformatted and reistalled everything it has not worked. Is there a preferences file that I can delete and let it rebuild itself? I have tried to repair the Office installation twice and even uninstalled and reinstalled the Word component but it made no difference. If I uninstall the entire program and reinstall it, will I also lose the activation or will the computer remember it? Can anyone please advise on what may be wrong? Thanks for any advice. |
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Office 2003 won't remember custom menu settings
Luis
Excellent news. Terry "Luis Ortega" wrote in message ... Thanks. I updated Acrobat and now all is well. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... Does Word remember any other changes to defaults such as changing the font of page layout? If it doesn't, then I guess that you are probably using Adobe Acrobat Writer or some similar utility (but Acrobat is the usual culprit) that is stopping normal.dot being saved. You can either run Acrobat setup and remove the add-ins or download the latest update top Acrobat that should resolve the problem. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Luis Ortega" wrote in message ... I installed Office 2003 and I tried to customize the menus but it won't remember the settings and every time I start one of the applications, the menu icons have all reverted to the default setup. I had this same program working fine before, but since I reformatted and reistalled everything it has not worked. Is there a preferences file that I can delete and let it rebuild itself? I have tried to repair the Office installation twice and even uninstalled and reinstalled the Word component but it made no difference. If I uninstall the entire program and reinstall it, will I also lose the activation or will the computer remember it? Can anyone please advise on what may be wrong? Thanks for any advice. |
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