Mysterious toolbar!

[quirky42]

My Microsoft Word 2003 normal menu toolbar (file, edit, view etc) has moved
to the right side as a vertical toolbar when I open any document and I can't
reset it. Is it a virus?

 

[Anne Troy]

Very doubtful that it's a virus. You should be able to right-click, and hit
Customize, and go to the Toolbars tab and reset them. See:
http://www.officearticles.com/word/reset_toolbars_in_microsoft_word.htm
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~Anne Troy

www.OfficeArticles.com

 

[JohnR]

you can click and drag it back to its previous position. Move your mouse
pointer over the toolbar till it changes to the familiar 4 arrow position,
probably to the left of the "open new document" icon. Then just click and
drag that point to where you would "like" it to be.

John

 

[Beth Melton]

Resetting a toolbar only removes customizations - it does not reset
the toolbar location which is what the OP is encountering. "quirky42"
accidentally dragged the menu bar and docked on the right side of the
screen. As "JohnR" pointed out, all that needs to be done is to move
it back to the top.

As I noted in another reply to one of your posts, resetting the
application or components of the application to the defaults is a bit
of a heavy-handed approach. There's no sense in advising a method that
results in the loss of customizations and/or personal preferences when
an alternative is available.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

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Microsoft Office MVP

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