I Lost "View" From The Menu

[rafaelmontserrat]

Hi,

I'm beginning to use word 2004. I'm having trouble setting up my
customized menus and toolbars. I get some toolbars customized, then
all of them dissapear. I don't know what I did. I discovered that the
way to get them back is to go into 'customize' and check the boxes on
the toolbar window. The toolbars reappear and seem to have the
customizations intact. I go to 'save all' frequently to capture them
and hold them in place.

Now I've lost the 'View' menu and I can't figure out how to get it
back. Help please.

Thanks, Rafael

 

[matt neuburg]

Hi,

I'm beginning to use word 2004. I'm having trouble setting up my
customized menus and toolbars. I get some toolbars customized, then
all of them dissapear. I don't know what I did. I discovered that the
way to get them back is to go into 'customize' and check the boxes on
the toolbar window. The toolbars reappear and seem to have the
customizations intact. I go to 'save all' frequently to capture them
and hold them in place.

That (save all) is a waste, since it refers to a document. Toolbars are
not saved into a document.

Now I've lost the 'View' menu and I can't figure out how to get it
back. Help please.

If I were you I'd start over. Choose Tools > Customize > Keyboard and
hit the Reset button in that dialog.

You might find this sufficiently helpful to be worth the slight cost:

<http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/office-customizing.html>

m.

 

[rafaelmontserrat]

Some time ago on this group I learned that 'save all' not only saved
all word documents with one click, but also defaulted(?), of fixed in
place, all customized item I had created. Previously, I would
customize toolbars, then if word froze, and I force quit and re-opened,
all the customizations were gone. Clicking save all after I make a
customization keeps that from happening. It's worked that way for me.

I solved the View menu problem. I found that in
Customize<Commands<Categories<Built-In Menus, that 'Built-In Menus'
showed me 'View' which I could drag to the menu bar and solve the
problem.

Rafael

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Hi Rafael and Matt,

That (save all) is a waste, since it refers to a document. Toolbars are
not saved into a document.

He's doing that on my advice--toolbars are saved in the Normal template, and
Save All saves all open documents *and* forces a save of the Normal template
that is invisibly active in the background. Not a waste, if you are changing
the content of toolbars (adding/subtracting icons). Not going to make a
difference in this case, though, because--

The problem here is not that toolbar changes aren't being saved, but that
the saved toolbars are not showing up. Word should show whatever toolbars
were active when you quit Word. If you close them before quitting, they are
not supposed to show up on launch. What controls which toolbars show up is
saved in Preferences, I think, so the original problem sounds like a symptom
of damaged preferences. The missing View on the menubar also sounds like
damaged prefs. So follow the steps here:
http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/DamagedPrefs.htm
(hit refresh a few times in Safari, or use a different browser)

If I were you I'd start over. Choose Tools > Customize > Keyboard and
hit the Reset button in that dialog.

I wouldn't--the toolbars seem fine. However, if I did choose to try that, I
would back up the Normal template first! It's here, unless you moved it.
~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Normal
Where ~ stands for your username home account

You might find this sufficiently helpful to be worth the slight cost:

<http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/office-customizing.html>

Certainly worth buying.