Menu bar in Word will not fully display

[Jerry S]

My menu bar in Word only displays Table, Window, and Help. I have tried
moving it around to no avail. It is as if the left side of the menu bar is
cutoff. All of the on-line Help only refers to fixing problems with the Tool
Bar. I even uninstalled Office 2003 and re-installed it and I still have the
same limited menu bar. Any ideas are appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm .

 

[Jerry S]

Thanks for the response. I tried the winword.exe. /a and it corrected the
problem as it opened Word. But after closing Word and re-opening it, the
menus were gone again. I also deleted the Data key in regedit, but this did
not work. I opened Word and had the same problem. The Data key was
recreated and had the same problem. I am on 2003 or v11.

 

[Graham Mayor]

If it works in safe mode (with the \a switch) then as the standard toolbars
are stored in the data key, deleting the data key should fix it permanently;
however personal toolbar settings are stored in the normal template so your
next step if to rename the normal template to (say) normal.old -
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm then
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProblemsStartingWord.htm.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Alternatively, one could try resetting the Menu Bar in Tools | Customize |
Toolbars or replacing the menu headings via Tools | Customize | Commands |
Built-in Menus.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org