2003 Loosing Sub Menus

[Lori]

This happens on to quite a few users. They go to insert/delete a row in a
table only to find that while the Table menu appears the sub-menus do not.
Nothing flashes. They simply do not reappear.

We've had them go in a reset the Menu Bar under View > Toolbars > Customize
however this is an irrating problem. We do a lot of table work here so
that's were it's mostly noticed but I've seen it with the Draw button on the
Drawing Toolbar and another I currently forget which.

Other sub-menu's will appear fine, such as the File menu or Format menu.

Any what may be causing this? and how to fix it?

~Lori

 

[Stefan Blom]

See http://word.mvps.org/faqs/apperrors/missingmenusetc.htm.

 

[Lori]

Stefan~

I was afraid of this.

We have other periodic problems where the huge chunks of Tools > Options get
screwed up. The blue background gets turned, inches become pixels, the
number of recently used docs switches from 5 to 1600 something....

The only way we've found to fix it is to delete the entire entry in the
registry for Word and for a reinstall from the server. I know I've done this
on my system and I'm still have the missing sub-menu problem.

I'm really starting to appreciate the PC/Mac commericals.

~Lori