HELP! What have I done to my MENU/TOOLBAR?

[Ponderosa]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

Ok, this might sound crazy but I seem to have killed the menu bar in Word:Mac. I was experimenting with customizing it and thought that I was only saving the changes in the document I had open but it seems that I've applied it to all word documents... In the process of trying to get it back I seem to have vanished even more stuff - so my menu bar now only has the following options "Word", "Font", "Window", "Work" and "Help".To make matters worse I have managed to vanish all the toolbars too. I wanted to rationalize but not this much!

I've tried various things from Help and have even uninstalled Office and reinstalled it - but unfortunately that didn't restore the menu to its original settings.

Please be patient with me I'm a very new Mac user (4 days old)!!

 

[peterthebag]

Hi,
the easy way would be to shut down word, remove your normal template,
and restart word. It will create a new default normal template for
you.

Office 2004 stores the template in

Hard Drive/Users/your username/Documents/Microsoft User Data/

Office 2008 may store it elsewhere, but it should show up in a
spotlight search (the blue icon on the top right of the screen is
spotlight)

best of luck,

PtB

 

[Ponderosa]

Many, many thanks! I seem to have fixed it now - on a very steep learning curve here and feeling mighty relieved to see all those buttons again.

Office 2008 stores the template in:
Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates

Cheers!