Paragraph command missing

[creek1]

I'm using Microsoft Office 2004 Word.

In the top menu (the one showing Apple, Word, File, Edit, View, Insert,
Format....) "Paragraph" has disappeared from the Format Menu. I've
tried trashing the Microsoft Folder in Preferences, but the problem
remains.

Suggestions?

 

[matt neuburg]

I'm using Microsoft Office 2004 Word.

In the top menu (the one showing Apple, Word, File, Edit, View, Insert,
Format....) "Paragraph" has disappeared from the Format Menu. I've
tried trashing the Microsoft Folder in Preferences, but the problem
remains.

Why not just put "Paragraph" back into the Format Menu? Choose Tools >
Customize > Customize Toolbars/Menus, then choose Format, find the
Paragraph command, and drag into place in the menu. m.

 

[creek1]

I tried that, Matt, but two problems:
1. You can't (or at least I can't) drag items to the TOP menu. (This
isn't Word's "Format" toolbar; it's the system toolbar that shows when
Word is active.)
2. I can't find a "Paragraph" command in the "Commands" panel of
"Customize Toobars/Menus"

 

[Elliott Roper]

I'm using Microsoft Office 2004 Word.

In the top menu (the one showing Apple, Word, File, Edit, View, Insert,
Format....) "Paragraph" has disappeared from the Format Menu. I've
tried trashing the Microsoft Folder in Preferences, but the problem
remains.

Suggestions?

I lost the format menu's 'style' line under similar mysterious
circumstances.
If you still can't get Matt's recipe to work:-
Beth suggested:-
Tools> Customize> Toolbars.  Select Menu Bar and click Reset.
....and it did the trick for me,

There seems to be a plague of these missing menu items...

 

[CyberTaz]

1. You can't (or at least I can't) drag items to the TOP menu. (This
isn't Word's "Format" toolbar; it's the system toolbar that shows when
Word is active.)

Make sure that Word's Menu Bar toolbar is active while in the Customize
dialog. When you modify it the main toolbar will update accordingly.

2. I can't find a "Paragraph" command in the "Commands" panel of
"Customize Toobars/Menus"

In the Categories List select Format. Paragraph is 19th from the _bottom_ of
the Commands list.

Elliott's suggestion is more direct & will probably fix the problem as well.

Regards |:>)

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Make sure that Word's Menu Bar toolbar is active while in the Customize
dialog. When you modify it the main toolbar will update accordingly.

"Active" means (I think) that you checked the box in Tools | Customize.
Then a little duplicate of the Menu Bar, with File, Edit, etc will appear
above your usual toolbar. That's the one you modify, rather than the actual
Menu Bar. You have to grab the command, hover over the File on the duplicate
menu, let it drop down, then finish dragging the command into place. Then
the Menu Bar changes after you close Tools | Customize.

I don't think Format Paragraph is part of this (is it?) but another cause of
menu command vanishing in Word 2004 is 5.1 menus. Make sure you didn't
accidentally turn on "Word 5.1 Menus". Look under View to see if there's a
check next to that option.

 

[matt neuburg]

don't think Format Paragraph is part of this (is it?) but another cause of
menu command vanishing in Word 2004 is 5.1 menus. Make sure you didn't
accidentally turn on "Word 5.1 Menus".

That was the first thing I tried, naturally, but it didn't vanish, so I
didn't suggest this. But perhaps I didn't understand what was missing,
in the first place. m.

 

[creek1]

Daiya-

YES, YES, YES!!! It never occurred to me that it I put the "Paragraph"
command in the Format TOOLBAR that it would then show up in the Format
MENU BAR, but it does. Thanks.

Dave