Office Menu Positions

[Rick]

I'm running XP and Office and am having difficulties
keeping the menu bars in Word/Excel in the same position
each time I restart. I move the menus into the desired
position each time I work on an Office program and
provided I don't restart they seem to remain in desired
location. However, as soon as I restart all changes are
lost.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Bob I]

Either the user profile is corrupted and changes aren't saved or you are
using Guest Account and it is made fresh for each logon. I would check
the Account thats being used and the permissions. For further help with
Profiles, post questions to the WindowsXP newsgroup.

 

[LS]

Hi, I have found that if I open my normal.dot, bring up
toolbars where I want them, save normal then close
toolbars not needed, they stick.

 

[Beth Melton]

Hi Rick,

These settings should automatically be saved when you exit the
application. The Word toolbar settings are stored in the Registry and
the Excel toolbar settings in an *.xlb file.

Have you tried starting the application, making sure there is only one
document/worksheet window open, moving the menu bar and exiting the
application?

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[Rick]

Hi Beth,

Thanks for your help.
I have tried starting with only one window open and moving
the toolbars and closing, but even that doesn't seem to
work. The changes only seem to last until I next
shutdown/restart my PC. I only have the one user profile
(with Administrator privileges). I have also tried making
the changes, saving normal.dot, but even that doesn't seem
to work.
Do you have any more suggestions I may be able to try?
Thanks again,
Rick

 

[Beth Melton]

Hi Rick,

You could try resetting the Registry and the *.xlb file. Although if
this is happening in both applications it leads me to think there is
an add-in causing the behavior.

Search for the *.xlb file and rename it. Excel will create a new on
upon starting. For the Word settings, in the Registry navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Data

and rename the Data key. Word will create a new on upon starting.

Note that the Data key holds the majority of your settings found under
Tools/Options and Tools/AutoCorrect Options so any changes you have
made will be reset to the defaults.

In this situation you may want to use the Registry/Export Registry
file command, export your selected branch, and delete the key. That
way if you find the change wasn't necessary or incorrect, you can
merge the deleted branch back to the Registry by double-clicking the
resulting file.

As always, prior to making any changes to the Registry you should
review "Backing up the Registry" and "Restoring the Registry" in the
Registry Help.

Failing that, check the XLStart folder and Office\Startup folder for
add-ins.

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assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

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Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
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MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/