In Tools Menu, choice for Language disappeared

[Roger]

Would anyone know why the choice or Language in the Tools Menu would
suddenly disappear from the Tools Menu? I run Mac OSX Panther 10.3.3 and
Word for OSX. I've done everything I can possibly think of to
troubleshoot, from trashing Microsoft Preferences to checking every feature
in the system that relates to Languages. A key troubleshoot result is that
when I Log In to OSX with an alternative Test user, the problem ceases to
exist. Languages is clearly part of the Tools Menu.
Any pointers from someone?

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Hi Roger,

Try this: Go to Tools>Customize. Make sure the main Menu Bar is selected
and click Reset.

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[TonyCurtis]

Update:

I have tried to reset the "Tools/Customize Toolbars & Menus" yet did not work. Not even deleting all Toolbars from there.

Update to my previous post: I have discovered that the "Format/Font" has not gone indeed. I have now a new "Format/Character" and when I open such menu, it is in fact the Font formatting window. Weird !

Any hint most welcome. Thanks.

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[Tony]

Hi all,

Deleting the Normal file did not fix it.

But deleting the file "com.microsoft.Word.prefs.plist" fixed it.
Although that way I lost all my custom settings.

Suggestion to Microsoft: Word 2004 (and previously Word v.X) is the
only application that unexpectedly quits and corrupts its own
preference and setting files in our Mac OS X 10.2.8 and Mac OS X 10.3.4
systems, which are rock solid. This is a positive criticism: please,
please, please, make Word 2004 a truly Mac OS X application: stable as
the OS itself! Thanks.

More: as far as I can tell, this instability of Word 2004 (and Word
v.X) is due to the "peculiar" way in which Word handles memory. If
possible, Word should handle memory like the OS X and other
applications do.

Again, it is amazing to me that only Word causes these annoying
problems in Mac OS X. And we use dozens if not hundreds of applications
which never --or almost never-- ever quit. But as said Word quits
unexpectedly quite frequently when opening files, closing files and
--mostly-- when copy/pasting/cutting text.

Weird to me...

Note: deleting all current and previous Office versions and
clean-reinstalling Office 2004 (or Office v.X latest version) does not
help.

Thanks.

Regards,

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