MS Office for Mac 2008: Toolbars Disappear

[Nancy]

Toolbars do not appear even though they are checked as being active in the "View" drop-down menu.

This occurs every time a Word or Excel document is opened, whether a new blank document or an existing one.

Unchecking the "Standard" or "Format" toolbar and then rechecking them make the toolbar appear but there are no icons visible. Clicking anywhere on the document then makes the icons appear.

Using time-machine, reinstalled MS Office to a version two months prior to when this started. No change.

Deleted and reinstalled from original CD and then installed updates. No change.

Anyone have any ideas?




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[CyberTaz]

Hi Nancy;

No offense, but this has been asked & answered dozens of times -- you're far
from being alone

Click the unidentified elliptical button at the right end of any document's
Title Bar to expand the toolbar area. You'll have to do the same once each
in both Excel & Word as well as any other app where the area is minimized.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Kerry]

How do I configure the program so that the FULL (without having to click on
the elliptical button) standard and formatting toolbars (instead of the
Formatting Palette) are the default for every document?

 

[Jim Gordon Mac MVP]

Hi Kerry,

The little button is a toggle switch. Click it to change the status of
the toolbar from display to not display or vice-versa.

This "improvement" is the result of a fad by Apple and Microsoft to copy
this "wonderful exciting" behavior of web browsers in all applications.
The result has been a lot of confusion and people having no clue what
they did to hide their toolbars or how to get them back. Along with this
"improvement" is the "improvement" that you can no longer undock the
standard toolbar and put it anywhere you want. Yet another "improvement"
is that you get a duplicate set of toolbars in each window instead of
just one toolbar. You wanted your office applications to be like web
browsers, right?

I don't like any of these "improvements." Fortunately, the fix is easy.
Make your own toolbar and turn off the standard one.

View > Customize Menus and Toolbars opens the Customize Toolbars and
Menus dialog.
Click the New button and give your toolbar a name.
Click OK and a very tiny little empty toolbar appears (you may have to
hunt around on the screen to find it - it's small).
Click the Commands tab of the dialog box.
This gives you access to all of the commands in the application (Word,
Excel & PowerPoint. Entourage and Project Center toolbars have a new
Customize method).
Drag any commands you want to the toolbar stub you made.
When you click OK to close the Customize Toolbars and Menus dialog box
you can use your new toolbar, which can be docked or made to float. In
Word, you can assign toolbars to either Normal (the default template) or
any other template and then share your toolbars with others by sharing
template files.

The index of Office 2008 for Mac All-in-One For Dummies directs you to
lots of pages within the book, as this was a topic we focused on quite a
bit.

-Jim

 

[CyberTaz]

There's no need to "configure" anything... Click the button to turn the
feature on, click it again to turn the feature off. The display of docked
toolbars is global for all document windows of any given program.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac