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[mammalardog]

My word program will not show the standard and formatting toolbars. What do
I do to reset them on the screen again.

 

[Stefan Blom]

Have you tried the following: On the View menu, click Toolbars,
and then click "Standard" (repeat for "Formatting")? If this
doesn't do the trick, take a look at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissngMenusEtc.htm.

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[Dian D. Chapman, MVP]

And if none of the previous suggestions work...try hitting ESC (the
escape key)...you may have tangled yourself in the full view.

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[mammalardog]

I was told to click START RUN and type winword.exe /a that worked to
restore word for me....thank you for your suggestion with the escape key

 

[mammalardog]

Clicking START Run winword.exe /a worked to restore the toolbars thank
you

 

[Dian D. Chapman, MVP]

No problem...thanks for the thanks! ;-)

And since the Addin Switch worked, then I'd also suggest you read this
TechTrax article to understand WHY that worked and how to fix the
problem completely.

Add-ins...One of Word's Most Common Problems
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=282

Dian D. Chapman, Technical Consultant
Microsoft MVP, MOS Certified
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This particular problem is caused not by add-ins but by a damaged Registry
key. As http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissngMenusEtc.htm explains, you
can rebuild the key, but just starting with the /a switch (which bypasses
the Registry along with Normal.dot and add-ins) often seems to "kickstart"
Word and fix the problem without requiring further repair.

 

[Dian D. Chapman, MVP]

I thought about that, but since the /a switch worked...I don't see how
that would mean it's the data key? (And I save the data key fix to a
last resort since it changes many settings.)

Dian ~

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Quoting from the cited article:

In Word 2000 and above, you can sometimes fix this simply by clicking the
Start button in the bottom left of your screen, selecting Run, and typing:
winword.exe /a. (You may need to specify the full path although you probably
won't.) When using the /a switch in Word 2000 and higher, certain problems
with the Data key in the registry trigger a repair utility, and this utility
then automatically rebuilds the corrupt values. Such problems appear to be
strictly limited to bad settings in the Toolbars value, and the toolbar
settings have to be completely out of the range of "acceptable" values for
this self-repair procedure to be triggered; so mild corruption would not
usually be fixed by it.
If using /a doesn't fix the problem, or if you are using Word 97, you will
need to delete and recreate the corrupt registry value(s), as follows:

 

[Dian D. Chapman, MVP]

Okay, you win! ;-)

D ~