Office 2003 Toolbar issue

[germm]

Every time any Office program is opened (word, excel, outlook, or even an
email in outlook) the toolbars are all over the place. In other words, the
toolbars react differently every time any program is opened. More than
anything, this is great anoyance. I have to rearrange my bars everytime. As
soon as the program is closed and reopened, the toolbars will all be in a
different place.

This is an issue with all of the computers in the office and the
adminstrator is just as baffled as the rest of us...

Any ideas on how to lock our toolbars?

 

[Dian D. Chapman, MVP]

Well...just guessing here, but since toolbars are saved in Word within
Normal.dot (the master template). So did admin set you all up using
the same normal.dot on a network? If so, it might be that one person
moves them and then someone else moves them somewhere else. When the
apps are all closed, normal is saving it from the last person???

Dian D. Chapman
Technical Consultant, Microsoft MVP
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[germm]

is there a way to fix this problem on individual machines?

I believe you hit the nail on the head with your response.

 

[Dian D. Chapman, MVP]

Go to Tools > Options > File Locations and change that path from the
network setting they would have set (if you're all using the same
Normal.dot) to a path on your own computer. Note that if there are
other template in that path that you'll need...you can always set your
WORKGROUP template path to that one. But have your admin delete the
Normal.dot from there.

Then reopen Word. When Word doesn't find a Normal.dot in the template
path, it'll just create a new default one for you...so you'll now have
your own in your own PC path you've set.

Hope that helps...

Dian D. Chapman
Technical Consultant, Microsoft MVP
MOS Certified, Editor/TechTrax

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