Format Palette disappears

[S. M. Boyd]

I am using a G-4 tower running OS 10.2. Suddenly, in my version of
Word (10.1.1) in Office for Mac X, whenever I click on the format
palette button, the palette rushes to the bottom of the screen and
disappears. When I click the darkened button on the toolbar, the
palette rushes to the top and disappears into the toolbar. No other
tool seems to be doing this. When I go to the View menu and click on
format palette, it does the same thing. Can anyone help me? I find the
palette very useful and would like to continue using it.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

I am using a G-4 tower running OS 10.2. Suddenly, in my version of
Word (10.1.1) in Office for Mac X, whenever I click on the format
palette button, the palette rushes to the bottom of the screen and
disappears. When I click the darkened button on the toolbar, the
palette rushes to the top and disappears into the toolbar. No other
tool seems to be doing this. When I go to the View menu and click on
format palette, it does the same thing. Can anyone help me? I find the
palette very useful and would like to continue using it.

Try this:

Type OPT-F11 to enter the Visual Basic Editor (VBE). Type CMD-G to open
the Immediate Window. In the Immediate Window, type or paste

Commandbars("Formatting Palette").Position = msoBarFloating
CommandBars("Formatting Palette").Top = 100
CommandBars("Formatting Palette").Left = 100

following each line with a Return.

Type OPT-F11 to return to Word.

The palette should then be visible and able to be repositioned.

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

Try this:

Type OPT-F11 to enter the Visual Basic Editor (VBE). Type CMD-G to open
the Immediate Window. In the Immediate Window, type or paste

Commandbars("Formatting Palette").Position = msoBarFloating
CommandBars("Formatting Palette").Top = 100
CommandBars("Formatting Palette").Left = 100

following each line with a Return.

Type OPT-F11 to return to Word.

The palette should then be visible and able to be repositioned.

JE,

If you paste, do you then need to position the cursor at the end of the
first line and press Return or Enter, then repeat for the other two lines?
It doesn't happen just by pasting lines followed by returns, as above,
right?

I never knew this trick. This seems to be a way of executing commands
directly without having to bother to create a Sub/End Sub macro or inserting
a module? Clever.

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[JE McGimpsey]

If you paste, do you then need to position the cursor at the end of the
first line and press Return or Enter, then repeat for the other two lines?
It doesn't happen just by pasting lines followed by returns, as above,
right?

Yes. I put it badly, but you deciphered it correctly.

I never knew this trick. This seems to be a way of executing commands
directly without having to bother to create a Sub/End Sub macro or inserting
a module?

You can do many, though by no means all, methods in the Immediate
Window, including assigning variables. I could have saved some typing
with (each line followed by a Return, of course):

Set c = CommandBars("Formatting Palette")
c.Position = msoBarFloating
c.Top = 100
c.Left = 100