ON 2007 Menus are gone and can't get them back

[P Cause]

I seem to have completely lost the menus in ON 2007. I have some toolbars
but I can't get any menus. Any idea how to get the menus back would be
appreciated.

 

[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

Does the menu reappear when you go to Tools menu | Customize | Toolbars tab
and recheck "Menu Bar"?

 

[P Cause]

There is no "menu bar" item.

Does the menu reappear when you go to Tools menu | Customize | Toolbars tab
and recheck "Menu Bar"?

 

[Olya Veselova (Microsoft, OneNote team)]

Can you see page tabs and section tabs? Maybe you have gone into Full Page
View mode. If so, try clicking F11 to get out of that mode.

 

[P Cause]

Looks like that may be it. Thanks. Will post again if this isn't it.

 

[P Cause]

Oops, spoke to soon. F11 doesn't do it. If I just click the ON icon I get
it opening with no menus and F11 doesn't make a difference.

 

[Olya Veselova (Microsoft, OneNote team)]

This is quite strange. I think a couple of things might be happening:

Possibility 1: You are in Side Note mode. In this mode you should be seeing
only the page surface and toolbars, but no page, section, or notebook tabs
around your page surface. Side Note come up when you click the OneNote icon
in the windows taskbar (near the clock). If you want to start OneNote in
normal mode, right-click on this icon instead, and click Open OneNote, or
just open OneNote from the Start menu.

Possibility 2: Your toolbars and page, notebook, and section tabs are still
visible, but the menus disappeared for some mysterious reason. You could try
restoring the normal conditions by deleting your Toolbars and Preferences
files. Here is how to do that. Close OneNote. Go to C:\Documents and
Settings\%username%\Application Data\Microsoft\OneNote\12.0 and dete the
Toolbars.dat and the Preferences.dat file. Note that this means that you may
have to loose your note flag customizations and recustomize them again.

Hope this helps,

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Olya Veselova (Microsoft, OneNote team) shared these words of wisdom:

... Go to C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application
Data\Microsoft\OneNote\12.0 and dete the Toolbars.dat and the
Preferences.dat file.

Interesting to see that these data are stored in extra files and not
in the Registry.
Is there a special reason for that?

Further interesting to see that these data are stored for the *system*
and not per *USER*.
How come?
Aren't toolbars and menubars something that should be customizable for
each individual user?
Not good to have it unified for all user of a computer, IMHO.

Rainald
P.S. Will there be some info in the HLP or elsewhere on the places
where ON stores what?

 

[P Cause]

I was in a side note and was getting there by using an add-in that sent a
page to onenote from Firefox. This is a a new behavior for sidenotes and I
*hate* it. I often get stuff into onenote through a sidenote and then want
to file. This is a terrible change and very confusing.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

I was in a side note and was getting there by using an add-in that
sent a page to onenote from Firefox. This is a a new behavior for
sidenotes and I *hate* it. I often get stuff into onenote through a
sidenote and then want to file. This is a terrible change and very
confusing.

Sorry, but I am having difficulties in understanding what might bother
you.
It's *your* initiative to use that add-in in FireFox.

Where do you want to have the page sent to instead of a side-note?

Rainald