Menu wiedness

[Jeremy Fieldsend]

It's happened again. I reported earlier that the Project Palette cannot
be found anywhere and now the View menu does not contain the Formatting
Palette. (Is 'Palette' a coincidence?) Any ideas?

I have tried resetting toolbars to no effect.

(Office 2004 on G4 PowerBook, OS10.2.8)
Thanks

 

[Jeremy Fieldsend]

(How wierd is spelling wierdness wrong)

 

[Elliott Roper]

(How wierd is spelling wierdness wrong)

I can't be the only person who calls this product Microsoft W<slap!>

 

[incognito]

You wrote on 7/14/04 8:52 AM

I can't be the only person who calls this product Microsoft W<slap!>

If only once, at least, the word 'weird' would have been spelled right!
Oh my ...

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Try generating a new Normal template--toolbars are held in Normal template
by default, unless you moved them. See here for directions.

http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/MacWordNormal.htm

NOTE: In Safari, you may need to hit refresh a few times to get these sites
to work. Try Explorer or a different browser.

DM

 

[Jeremy Fieldsend]

Try generating a new Normal template--toolbars are held in Normal template
by default, unless you moved them. See here for directions.

http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/MacWordNormal.htm

Not being entirely sure what you meant by 'generate a new' Normal
template, I created a folder in Microsoft User Data folder and put
Normal in there; quit and relaunched and lo there's a new Normal in MUD
so I trashed the one which I'd moved to the new folder. However, still
no joy: no Formatting Palette in View and no Project Palette in Tools.

 

[JeffMaxwell]

Do you have a .dot file in your Office:Startup:Word folder? One got
installed in mine when I added something from Adobe and the result was my
palettes, menu customizations, etc stopped working; also my clipboard was
cleared whenever I launched Word. I removed the .dot file and now Word
starts much faster and keeps my customizations intact.

 

[Jeremy Fieldsend]

Do you have a .dot file in your Office:Startup:Word folder? One got
installed in mine when I added something from Adobe and the result was my
palettes, menu customizations, etc stopped working; also my clipboard was
cleared whenever I launched Word. I removed the .dot file and now Word
starts much faster and keeps my customizations intact.

No, it's empty. (But thanks.)

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Hi Jeremy,

Weird misspellings aside , have you tried testing your preferences and
Normal template? See these articles for the procedures:

<http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/DamagedPrefs.htm>
<http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/MacWordNormal.htm>

--
Beth Rosengard
Mac MVP

Mac Word FAQ: <http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/index.htm>
Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org>

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Not being entirely sure what you meant by 'generate a new' Normal
template, I created a folder in Microsoft User Data folder and put
Normal in there; quit and relaunched and lo there's a new Normal in MUD
so I trashed the one which I'd moved to the new folder. However, still
no joy: no Formatting Palette in View and no Project Palette in Tools.

Word stores a copy of Normal in memory when it's open, then writes it
back to disk on close. So if you moved Normal while Word was open, you
got a copy of your old Normal back in the MUD folder.

Instead, close Word first, then move Normal, then start Word - it will
create a fresh Normal from built-in settings.

 

[Jeffrey Weston]

I think this has been asked before but I never saw the answer...

Jeremy, you could be in "Word 5.1 Mode". Pressing "CNTRL + F5" will put you
in this mode with different tool bars and different Menu items.

If you press "CNTRL + F5" you should revert back to the default MacWord
setting, and you should see the "Formatting Palette" and other options back
under the Menu Bar

Let us know, what happens. (If this has been tried before, my apologies.)

Jeffrey Weston
Mac Word Test
Macintosh Business Unit
Microsoft

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[Jeffrey Weston]

Sorry, "CNTRL + F5" is incorrect, it should be just "CNTRL + 5".

I think this has been asked before but I never saw the answer...

Jeremy, you could be in "Word 5.1 Mode". Pressing "CNTRL + F5" will put you
in this mode with different tool bars and different Menu items.

If you press "CNTRL + F5" you should revert back to the default MacWord
setting, and you should see the "Formatting Palette" and other options back
under the Menu Bar

Let us know, what happens. (If this has been tried before, my apologies.)

Jeffrey Weston
Mac Word Test
Macintosh Business Unit
Microsoft

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Word stores a copy of Normal in memory when it's open, then writes it
back to disk on close. So if you moved Normal while Word was open, you
got a copy of your old Normal back in the MUD folder.

Instead, close Word first, then move Normal, then start Word - it will
create a fresh Normal from built-in settings.

 

[Jeremy Fieldsend]

Sorry, "CNTRL + F5" is incorrect, it should be just "CNTRL + 5".

Actually fn F5 did it (on my Powerbook). Once I had unselected 5.1
Menus, both the Formatting Palette and the Project Centre palettes have
returned. Well done and many thanks.

 

[Jeremy Fieldsend]

Hi Jeremy,

Weird misspellings aside , have you tried testing your preferences and
Normal template? See these articles for the procedures:

<http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/DamagedPrefs.htm>
<http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/MacWordNormal.htm>

Many thanks for those. The problem was solved by switching on Word 5.1
menus then switching them off again.