languages disappeared

[kat]

Hi anyone using Office
2004 for MAC, please I
could use any insight you
could provide.

I go to school in three
languages so this is
particularly important to
me. I went to the 'Tools'
menu to select
'languages' like I usually
do. Only that the word
'languages' no longer
EXISTS in my tools menu.
I cannot seem to access
any of the linguistic
changing functions. And
in addition, my spell
chekcker is permanently
set to English. and I
cannot change it.

Please, if you know what
this is, please tell me. (I
also tried to reinstall
office and it didn't
change.) It's just gone

The dictionaries are all
still in their places... they
just do not work in word,
as I cannot access them.
Before this point, it all
worked well.

Please help.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Sounds like you accidentally turned on "Word 5.1 Menus". Look under View to
see if there's a check next to that option, and uncheck it. See also:
http://daiya.mvps.org/spelling.htm#NoToolsLanguage

If that isn't the problem:

If you go to Tools | Customize Toolbars/Menus, select the Menu Bar, and
click Reset, it should set all your main menus and built-in toolbars back to
the default.

If you have customized your menus or toolbars, you may want to explore the
Tools | Customize, Commands dialog, and drag the commands you are missing
back to the toolbars/menus yourself, rather than wipe out your
customizations by clicking Reset.

Reinstalling Office without removing it first rarely fixes anything. For
future reference, bookmark the Word troubleshooting steps here:

http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/TroubleshootingIndex.htm
(hit refresh a few times in Safari, or use a different browser)

The most common culprit is a corrupted Normal template or damaged
Preferences file--and I believe wiping Preferences would also turn 5.1 menus
off, as they are not on by default.

 

[kat]

Thank you so much!
It was the WORD 5.1 menu.
You are totally amazing. Thank you so much!!!!
~Kat

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Glad to help--though I just passed on a trick someone else figured out.