Please Help: Reviewing Toolbar

M

mbhiebert

Please help...

I've been having trouble displaying the Reviewing Toolbar. No amount
of toggling/untoggling, restarting Word, restarting my computer, or
even reinstalling Office has helped so far. I'm struggling with
reviewing and working on collaborative documents without this toolbar.
It worked fine for a couple of months after I first installed Office
2004 (Word version 11.2), but the toolbar then started appearing in
strange places and wouldn't let me drag it to the top of the screen.
Finally it just disappeared altogether. The other toolbars appear
unaffected.

Please help if you have any suggestions.

Matt
Powerbook G4; 1GHz; OSX 10.4.7
 
E

Elliott Roper

Please help...

I've been having trouble displaying the Reviewing Toolbar. No amount
of toggling/untoggling, restarting Word, restarting my computer, or
even reinstalling Office has helped so far. I'm struggling with
reviewing and working on collaborative documents without this toolbar.
It worked fine for a couple of months after I first installed Office
2004 (Word version 11.2), but the toolbar then started appearing in
strange places and wouldn't let me drag it to the top of the screen.
Finally it just disappeared altogether. The other toolbars appear
unaffected.

Please help if you have any suggestions.
Click to expand...

This is a fairly common problem. Toolbars go walkies. Yours has almost
certainly parked itself offscreen. It sits there sneering at you, just
out of reach and singing a little jingle about where it would like you
to go today.

google the group for various remedy details.
eg this is the url I started looking with. It is very long, so fix the
wraps.

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=reviewing+toolbar+off+screen&num=10
&scoring=r&hl=en&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_ugroup=microsoft.public.mac.of
fice.word&as_usubject=&as_uauthors=&lr=lang_en&as_drrb=q&as_qdr=&as_mind
=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=10&as_maxm=7&as_maxy=2006&safe=off

try trashing normal,
or (my fave, but it does not work for every case) tricking your display
by setting your screen resolution to 800*600, spotting the missing
toolbar, drag it toward the centre, and reset your screen res,
or one of the macro suggestions

If you are doing a lot of reviewing with track changes, I suggest you
assign a bunch of keyboard shortcuts to the common operations.

Also, if you are making lots of changes, and simply want tracked
changes of the results, give compare documents a go.
 
J

John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]

Here you go: run the following macro:

Sub ReviewingReveal()

Dim tb As CommandBar

Set tb = Application.CommandBars("Reviewing")

With tb
.Enabled = True
.Visible = True
.RowIndex = 9 ' Docking order
.Left = 0
End With

End Sub


If you don't know how, see here:
http://word.mvps.org/mac/installmacro.html

Cheers


Please help...

I've been having trouble displaying the Reviewing Toolbar. No amount
of toggling/untoggling, restarting Word, restarting my computer, or
even reinstalling Office has helped so far. I'm struggling with
reviewing and working on collaborative documents without this toolbar.
It worked fine for a couple of months after I first installed Office
2004 (Word version 11.2), but the toolbar then started appearing in
strange places and wouldn't let me drag it to the top of the screen.
Finally it just disappeared altogether. The other toolbars appear
unaffected.

Please help if you have any suggestions.

Matt
Powerbook G4; 1GHz; OSX 10.4.7
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Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410
 
M

mbhiebert

Thanks Elliott and John for your suggestions.

Unfortunately trashing Normal didn't do it, nor did the screen
resolution strategy. I tried running the Macro below and it looks as
if it's buggy? It's my first time with Macros, but I read the linked
file explaining how to do it.

When I try running it, I get "syntax error"
in the VBE interface, four lines are red, which seems to mean
problematic:

.Enabled = True
.Visible = True
.RowIndex = 9 ' Docking order
.Left = 0

Those four lines. Any fixes? other suggestions. I'm getting desperate
here!
Thanks so much,
Matt
 
M

mbhiebert

Thanks for the suggestion. I did try that... no effect unfortunately.
Is there any kind of more agressive reset I can do? I even reinstalled
Office, but no luck
 
M

mbhiebert

Aha! Thanks for this tip. I feel we're getting closer to a
solution... I am now the proud owner of a macro which has no red
text... but...

I'm still struggling though. I run the macro and it does not solve my
problem. If I uncheck "Reviewing" under View>Toolbars prior to running
the macro, the macro succeeds in checking it for me (activating it), so
it is doing something (a promising start). But it still does not
appear on my screen.

I have tried the other fixes in the web article on macros, by doing
Debug>Compile Normal. I also retried the other solutions suggested in
this thread (reset Reviewing, play with screen resolution, trash
Normal).

I'm really at a loss! If there is anything else you can suggest,
please let me know. Could this be related to something bigger like my
system software?

Thanks again for your patience and help!
Matt
 
C

CyberTaz

Just a shot in the dark here, but maybe the Reviewing Toolbar itself isn't
the problem... Seems like *something* you've tried should have made a
difference in one way or another :)

Have you tried going into Tools>Customize>Customize Toolbars/Menus to turn
the bar on from there? Also, in trying Beth's suggestion, did you click on
the _name_ of the bar (to highlight it) rather than just checking the box)
before clicking Reset? - And make sure the list in the lower left displays
the word Normal.

If all this still doesn't work try resetting the View Menu itself. When in
the Customize dialog it appears as a toolbar right below the actual Apple
Menu Bar. Ctrl+click it & choose Reset Command.

Good Luck |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



Aha! Thanks for this tip. I feel we're getting closer to a
solution... I am now the proud owner of a macro which has no red
text... but...

I'm still struggling though. I run the macro and it does not solve my
problem. If I uncheck "Reviewing" under View>Toolbars prior to running
the macro, the macro succeeds in checking it for me (activating it), so
it is doing something (a promising start). But it still does not
appear on my screen.

I have tried the other fixes in the web article on macros, by doing
Debug>Compile Normal. I also retried the other solutions suggested in
this thread (reset Reviewing, play with screen resolution, trash
Normal).

I'm really at a loss! If there is anything else you can suggest,
please let me know. Could this be related to something bigger like my
system software?

Thanks again for your patience and help!
Matt


Mi Hatt:

You're correct: You've been hit by the "Non-breaking-space bug".

Damn: The article I sent you to does not describe the problem.

What has happened is that you have pasted from a web browser into the VBA
editor. In the web browser, all the spaces were transposed into
non-breaking spaces to preserve the layout, because HTML rules munch
multiple spaces into one.

Unfortunately, to the Mac Word VBA editor a non-breaking space is a
different character -- it's not "white space", and it gives you this error.

The cure is to replace all the spaces in front of the red lines with "real"
spaces, and the problem will go away. If you have to do a lot of them,
paste the text first into a blank Word document, then use Find/Replace to
replace the non-breaking spaces with ordinary spaces.

Beth: That's the second user today who has been hit with this problem.
Could you please add that note prominently to the web article?

Cheers

Thanks Elliott and John for your suggestions.

Unfortunately trashing Normal didn't do it, nor did the screen
resolution strategy. I tried running the Macro below and it looks as
if it's buggy? It's my first time with Macros, but I read the linked
file explaining how to do it.

When I try running it, I get "syntax error"
in the VBE interface, four lines are red, which seems to mean
problematic:

.Enabled = True
.Visible = True
.RowIndex = 9 ' Docking order
.Left = 0

Those four lines. Any fixes? other suggestions. I'm getting desperate
here!
Thanks so much,
Matt


John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh] wrote:
Here you go: run the following macro:

Sub ReviewingReveal()

Dim tb As CommandBar

Set tb = Application.CommandBars("Reviewing")

With tb
.Enabled = True
.Visible = True
.RowIndex = 9 ' Docking order
.Left = 0
End With

End Sub


If you don't know how, see here:
http://word.mvps.org/mac/installmacro.html

Cheers


On 10/7/06 2:39 PM, in article
(e-mail address removed),
"(e-mail address removed)"

Please help...

I've been having trouble displaying the Reviewing Toolbar. No amount
of toggling/untoggling, restarting Word, restarting my computer, or
even reinstalling Office has helped so far. I'm struggling with
reviewing and working on collaborative documents without this toolbar.
It worked fine for a couple of months after I first installed Office
2004 (Word version 11.2), but the toolbar then started appearing in
strange places and wouldn't let me drag it to the top of the screen.
Finally it just disappeared altogether. The other toolbars appear
unaffected.

Please help if you have any suggestions.

Matt
Powerbook G4; 1GHz; OSX 10.4.7


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Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410
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J

John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]

Hi Bob:

No: It's a bug in VBA. The Macro *should* force the toolbar visible. But
I forgot that the docking mechanism is ignored. I'm sorry: I forgot...

Nancy: Try this version of the macro:

Sub ReviewingReveal()

Dim tb As CommandBar

Set tb = Application.CommandBars("Reviewing")

With tb
.Enabled = True
.Visible = True
.RowIndex = 9 ' Docking order
.Top = 300
.Left = 300
End With

End Sub

That should force the Reviewing toolbar into the middle of your screen, from
where you can drag it where you want it.

Cheers

Just a shot in the dark here, but maybe the Reviewing Toolbar itself isn't
the problem... Seems like *something* you've tried should have made a
difference in one way or another :)

Have you tried going into Tools>Customize>Customize Toolbars/Menus to turn
the bar on from there? Also, in trying Beth's suggestion, did you click on
the _name_ of the bar (to highlight it) rather than just checking the box)
before clicking Reset? - And make sure the list in the lower left displays
the word Normal.

If all this still doesn't work try resetting the View Menu itself. When in
the Customize dialog it appears as a toolbar right below the actual Apple
Menu Bar. Ctrl+click it & choose Reset Command.

Good Luck |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



Aha! Thanks for this tip. I feel we're getting closer to a
solution... I am now the proud owner of a macro which has no red
text... but...

I'm still struggling though. I run the macro and it does not solve my
problem. If I uncheck "Reviewing" under View>Toolbars prior to running
the macro, the macro succeeds in checking it for me (activating it), so
it is doing something (a promising start). But it still does not
appear on my screen.

I have tried the other fixes in the web article on macros, by doing
Debug>Compile Normal. I also retried the other solutions suggested in
this thread (reset Reviewing, play with screen resolution, trash
Normal).

I'm really at a loss! If there is anything else you can suggest,
please let me know. Could this be related to something bigger like my
system software?

Thanks again for your patience and help!
Matt


Mi Hatt:

You're correct: You've been hit by the "Non-breaking-space bug".

Damn: The article I sent you to does not describe the problem.

What has happened is that you have pasted from a web browser into the VBA
editor. In the web browser, all the spaces were transposed into
non-breaking spaces to preserve the layout, because HTML rules munch
multiple spaces into one.

Unfortunately, to the Mac Word VBA editor a non-breaking space is a
different character -- it's not "white space", and it gives you this error.

The cure is to replace all the spaces in front of the red lines with "real"
spaces, and the problem will go away. If you have to do a lot of them,
paste the text first into a blank Word document, then use Find/Replace to
replace the non-breaking spaces with ordinary spaces.

Beth: That's the second user today who has been hit with this problem.
Could you please add that note prominently to the web article?

Cheers

On 11/7/06 12:59 PM, in article
(e-mail address removed), "(e-mail address removed)"

Thanks Elliott and John for your suggestions.

Unfortunately trashing Normal didn't do it, nor did the screen
resolution strategy. I tried running the Macro below and it looks as
if it's buggy? It's my first time with Macros, but I read the linked
file explaining how to do it.

When I try running it, I get "syntax error"
in the VBE interface, four lines are red, which seems to mean
problematic:

.Enabled = True
.Visible = True
.RowIndex = 9 ' Docking order
.Left = 0

Those four lines. Any fixes? other suggestions. I'm getting desperate
here!
Thanks so much,
Matt


John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh] wrote:
Here you go: run the following macro:

Sub ReviewingReveal()

Dim tb As CommandBar

Set tb = Application.CommandBars("Reviewing")

With tb
.Enabled = True
.Visible = True
.RowIndex = 9 ' Docking order
.Left = 0
End With

End Sub


If you don't know how, see here:
http://word.mvps.org/mac/installmacro.html

Cheers


On 10/7/06 2:39 PM, in article
(e-mail address removed),
"(e-mail address removed)"

Please help...

I've been having trouble displaying the Reviewing Toolbar. No amount
of toggling/untoggling, restarting Word, restarting my computer, or
even reinstalling Office has helped so far. I'm struggling with
reviewing and working on collaborative documents without this toolbar.
It worked fine for a couple of months after I first installed Office
2004 (Word version 11.2), but the toolbar then started appearing in
strange places and wouldn't let me drag it to the top of the screen.
Finally it just disappeared altogether. The other toolbars appear
unaffected.

Please help if you have any suggestions.

Matt
Powerbook G4; 1GHz; OSX 10.4.7


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me unless I ask you to.

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Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410


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Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410
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M

mbhiebert

Hi again,

I have run the new Macro, but as far as I can tell, there is no change
in the behavior of my mischievious Reviewing toolbar. It still does
not appear for me.

It is great to have a peer community for this kind of support, and I
appreciate all of your suggestions and ideas. Anything else I can try?
I'm debating doing a clean install on OS X and trying again from
scratch...

Thanks again,
Matt

Hi Bob:

No: It's a bug in VBA. The Macro *should* force the toolbar visible. But
I forgot that the docking mechanism is ignored. I'm sorry: I forgot...

Nancy: Try this version of the macro:

Sub ReviewingReveal()

Dim tb As CommandBar

Set tb = Application.CommandBars("Reviewing")

With tb
.Enabled = True
.Visible = True
.RowIndex = 9 ' Docking order
.Top = 300
.Left = 300
End With

End Sub

That should force the Reviewing toolbar into the middle of your screen, from
where you can drag it where you want it.

Cheers

Just a shot in the dark here, but maybe the Reviewing Toolbar itself isn't
the problem... Seems like *something* you've tried should have made a
difference in one way or another :)

Have you tried going into Tools>Customize>Customize Toolbars/Menus to turn
the bar on from there? Also, in trying Beth's suggestion, did you click on
the _name_ of the bar (to highlight it) rather than just checking the box)
before clicking Reset? - And make sure the list in the lower left displays
the word Normal.

If all this still doesn't work try resetting the View Menu itself. When in
the Customize dialog it appears as a toolbar right below the actual Apple
Menu Bar. Ctrl+click it & choose Reset Command.

Good Luck |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



Aha! Thanks for this tip. I feel we're getting closer to a
solution... I am now the proud owner of a macro which has no red
text... but...

I'm still struggling though. I run the macro and it does not solve my
problem. If I uncheck "Reviewing" under View>Toolbars prior to running
the macro, the macro succeeds in checking it for me (activating it), so
it is doing something (a promising start). But it still does not
appear on my screen.

I have tried the other fixes in the web article on macros, by doing
Debug>Compile Normal. I also retried the other solutions suggested in
this thread (reset Reviewing, play with screen resolution, trash
Normal).

I'm really at a loss! If there is anything else you can suggest,
please let me know. Could this be related to something bigger like my
system software?

Thanks again for your patience and help!
Matt



John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh] wrote:
Mi Hatt:

You're correct: You've been hit by the "Non-breaking-space bug".

Damn: The article I sent you to does not describe the problem.

What has happened is that you have pasted from a web browser into the VBA
editor. In the web browser, all the spaces were transposed into
non-breaking spaces to preserve the layout, because HTML rules munch
multiple spaces into one.

Unfortunately, to the Mac Word VBA editor a non-breaking space is a
different character -- it's not "white space", and it gives you this error.

The cure is to replace all the spaces in front of the red lines with "real"
spaces, and the problem will go away. If you have to do a lot of them,
paste the text first into a blank Word document, then use Find/Replace to
replace the non-breaking spaces with ordinary spaces.

Beth: That's the second user today who has been hit with this problem.
Could you please add that note prominently to the web article?

Cheers

On 11/7/06 12:59 PM, in article
(e-mail address removed), "(e-mail address removed)"

Thanks Elliott and John for your suggestions.

Unfortunately trashing Normal didn't do it, nor did the screen
resolution strategy. I tried running the Macro below and it looks as
if it's buggy? It's my first time with Macros, but I read the linked
file explaining how to do it.

When I try running it, I get "syntax error"
in the VBE interface, four lines are red, which seems to mean
problematic:

.Enabled = True
.Visible = True
.RowIndex = 9 ' Docking order
.Left = 0

Those four lines. Any fixes? other suggestions. I'm getting desperate
here!
Thanks so much,
Matt


John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh] wrote:
Here you go: run the following macro:

Sub ReviewingReveal()

Dim tb As CommandBar

Set tb = Application.CommandBars("Reviewing")

With tb
.Enabled = True
.Visible = True
.RowIndex = 9 ' Docking order
.Left = 0
End With

End Sub


If you don't know how, see here:
http://word.mvps.org/mac/installmacro.html

Cheers


On 10/7/06 2:39 PM, in article
(e-mail address removed),
"(e-mail address removed)"

Please help...

I've been having trouble displaying the Reviewing Toolbar. No amount
of toggling/untoggling, restarting Word, restarting my computer, or
even reinstalling Office has helped so far. I'm struggling with
reviewing and working on collaborative documents without this toolbar.
It worked fine for a couple of months after I first installed Office
2004 (Word version 11.2), but the toolbar then started appearing in
strange places and wouldn't let me drag it to the top of the screen.
Finally it just disappeared altogether. The other toolbars appear
unaffected.

Please help if you have any suggestions.

Matt
Powerbook G4; 1GHz; OSX 10.4.7


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me unless I ask you to.

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Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410


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M

mbhiebert

YIPPEEE! Okay, so I'm not sure what has happened. I was working on an
intricate document... 90 pages with graphics, tables etc... kind of
heavy on the formatting, and it started bugging up and changing
formatting in places where it shouldn't have. So I created a copy, and
trashed the original document.... and low and behold if the reviewing
toolbar didn't appear right in the middle of my screen as promised!
Very strange, but anyways, it seems as if that last Macro text did the
trick. Many many thanks! I will spend the next few minutes dancing
around my office.
Kind regards,
Matt


Hi again,

I have run the new Macro, but as far as I can tell, there is no change
in the behavior of my mischievious Reviewing toolbar. It still does
not appear for me.

It is great to have a peer community for this kind of support, and I
appreciate all of your suggestions and ideas. Anything else I can try?
I'm debating doing a clean install on OS X and trying again from
scratch...

Thanks again,
Matt

Hi Bob:

No: It's a bug in VBA. The Macro *should* force the toolbar visible. But
I forgot that the docking mechanism is ignored. I'm sorry: I forgot...

Nancy: Try this version of the macro:

Sub ReviewingReveal()

Dim tb As CommandBar

Set tb = Application.CommandBars("Reviewing")

With tb
.Enabled = True
.Visible = True
.RowIndex = 9 ' Docking order
.Top = 300
.Left = 300
End With

End Sub

That should force the Reviewing toolbar into the middle of your screen, from
where you can drag it where you want it.

Cheers

Just a shot in the dark here, but maybe the Reviewing Toolbar itself isn't
the problem... Seems like *something* you've tried should have made a
difference in one way or another :)

Have you tried going into Tools>Customize>Customize Toolbars/Menus to turn
the bar on from there? Also, in trying Beth's suggestion, did you click on
the _name_ of the bar (to highlight it) rather than just checking the box)
before clicking Reset? - And make sure the list in the lower left displays
the word Normal.

If all this still doesn't work try resetting the View Menu itself. When in
the Customize dialog it appears as a toolbar right below the actual Apple
Menu Bar. Ctrl+click it & choose Reset Command.

Good Luck |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 7/11/06 10:34 PM, in article
(e-mail address removed), "(e-mail address removed)"

Aha! Thanks for this tip. I feel we're getting closer to a
solution... I am now the proud owner of a macro which has no red
text... but...

I'm still struggling though. I run the macro and it does not solve my
problem. If I uncheck "Reviewing" under View>Toolbars prior to running
the macro, the macro succeeds in checking it for me (activating it), so
it is doing something (a promising start). But it still does not
appear on my screen.

I have tried the other fixes in the web article on macros, by doing
Debug>Compile Normal. I also retried the other solutions suggested in
this thread (reset Reviewing, play with screen resolution, trash
Normal).

I'm really at a loss! If there is anything else you can suggest,
please let me know. Could this be related to something bigger like my
system software?

Thanks again for your patience and help!
Matt



John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh] wrote:
Mi Hatt:

You're correct: You've been hit by the "Non-breaking-space bug".

Damn: The article I sent you to does not describe the problem.

What has happened is that you have pasted from a web browser into the VBA
editor. In the web browser, all the spaces were transposed into
non-breaking spaces to preserve the layout, because HTML rules munch
multiple spaces into one.

Unfortunately, to the Mac Word VBA editor a non-breaking space is a
different character -- it's not "white space", and it gives you this error.

The cure is to replace all the spaces in front of the red lines with "real"
spaces, and the problem will go away. If you have to do a lot of them,
paste the text first into a blank Word document, then use Find/Replace to
replace the non-breaking spaces with ordinary spaces.

Beth: That's the second user today who has been hit with this problem.
Could you please add that note prominently to the web article?

Cheers

On 11/7/06 12:59 PM, in article
(e-mail address removed), "(e-mail address removed)"

Thanks Elliott and John for your suggestions.

Unfortunately trashing Normal didn't do it, nor did the screen
resolution strategy. I tried running the Macro below and it looks as
if it's buggy? It's my first time with Macros, but I read the linked
file explaining how to do it.

When I try running it, I get "syntax error"
in the VBE interface, four lines are red, which seems to mean
problematic:

.Enabled = True
.Visible = True
.RowIndex = 9 ' Docking order
.Left = 0

Those four lines. Any fixes? other suggestions. I'm getting desperate
here!
Thanks so much,
Matt


John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh] wrote:
Here you go: run the following macro:

Sub ReviewingReveal()

Dim tb As CommandBar

Set tb = Application.CommandBars("Reviewing")

With tb
.Enabled = True
.Visible = True
.RowIndex = 9 ' Docking order
.Left = 0
End With

End Sub


If you don't know how, see here:
http://word.mvps.org/mac/installmacro.html

Cheers


On 10/7/06 2:39 PM, in article
(e-mail address removed),
"(e-mail address removed)"

Please help...

I've been having trouble displaying the Reviewing Toolbar. No amount
of toggling/untoggling, restarting Word, restarting my computer, or
even reinstalling Office has helped so far. I'm struggling with
reviewing and working on collaborative documents without this toolbar.
It worked fine for a couple of months after I first installed Office
2004 (Word version 11.2), but the toolbar then started appearing in
strange places and wouldn't let me drag it to the top of the screen.
Finally it just disappeared altogether. The other toolbars appear
unaffected.

Please help if you have any suggestions.

Matt
Powerbook G4; 1GHz; OSX 10.4.7


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me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410


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me unless I ask you to.

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John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]

Hi Matt:

Glad it worked eventually... :)

I was *not* going to go to *this* place, because it's technically
improbable. However, it is conceivable that in a particular document, the
Reviewing toolbar may not actually *exist*.

It's a long chain of circumstance, and if it were to occur, the document
would be so corrupt that Word should fail to load it all together. But
there is an outside possibility that your document had gotten into that
state.

In which case, the macro will force the "Item that exists in the place where
the Reviewing toolbar should be" into the middle of your screen. If that
happens to be "nothing", you will indeed see nothing. If you then transfer
to a document in which the Reviewing toolbar DOES exist, you will see it.

I swear that if the document is in that condition, Word *should* simply
crash each start-up until you replace the Normal template. But as famous
MVP Bob Buckland once observed: "Word rarely misses an opportunity to
perplex."

Cheers


YIPPEEE! Okay, so I'm not sure what has happened. I was working on an
intricate document... 90 pages with graphics, tables etc... kind of
heavy on the formatting, and it started bugging up and changing
formatting in places where it shouldn't have. So I created a copy, and
trashed the original document.... and low and behold if the reviewing
toolbar didn't appear right in the middle of my screen as promised!
Very strange, but anyways, it seems as if that last Macro text did the
trick. Many many thanks! I will spend the next few minutes dancing
around my office.
Kind regards,
Matt


Hi again,

I have run the new Macro, but as far as I can tell, there is no change
in the behavior of my mischievious Reviewing toolbar. It still does
not appear for me.

It is great to have a peer community for this kind of support, and I
appreciate all of your suggestions and ideas. Anything else I can try?
I'm debating doing a clean install on OS X and trying again from
scratch...

Thanks again,
Matt

Hi Bob:

No: It's a bug in VBA. The Macro *should* force the toolbar visible. But
I forgot that the docking mechanism is ignored. I'm sorry: I forgot...

Nancy: Try this version of the macro:

Sub ReviewingReveal()

Dim tb As CommandBar

Set tb = Application.CommandBars("Reviewing")

With tb
.Enabled = True
.Visible = True
.RowIndex = 9 ' Docking order
.Top = 300
.Left = 300
End With

End Sub

That should force the Reviewing toolbar into the middle of your screen, from
where you can drag it where you want it.

Cheers

On 12/7/06 10:18 PM, in article C0DA60D3.10664%[email protected],

Just a shot in the dark here, but maybe the Reviewing Toolbar itself isn't
the problem... Seems like *something* you've tried should have made a
difference in one way or another :)

Have you tried going into Tools>Customize>Customize Toolbars/Menus to turn
the bar on from there? Also, in trying Beth's suggestion, did you click on
the _name_ of the bar (to highlight it) rather than just checking the box)
before clicking Reset? - And make sure the list in the lower left displays
the word Normal.

If all this still doesn't work try resetting the View Menu itself. When in
the Customize dialog it appears as a toolbar right below the actual Apple
Menu Bar. Ctrl+click it & choose Reset Command.

Good Luck |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 7/11/06 10:34 PM, in article
(e-mail address removed), "(e-mail address removed)"

Aha! Thanks for this tip. I feel we're getting closer to a
solution... I am now the proud owner of a macro which has no red
text... but...

I'm still struggling though. I run the macro and it does not solve my
problem. If I uncheck "Reviewing" under View>Toolbars prior to running
the macro, the macro succeeds in checking it for me (activating it), so
it is doing something (a promising start). But it still does not
appear on my screen.

I have tried the other fixes in the web article on macros, by doing
Debug>Compile Normal. I also retried the other solutions suggested in
this thread (reset Reviewing, play with screen resolution, trash
Normal).

I'm really at a loss! If there is anything else you can suggest,
please let me know. Could this be related to something bigger like my
system software?

Thanks again for your patience and help!
Matt



John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh] wrote:
Mi Hatt:

You're correct: You've been hit by the "Non-breaking-space bug".

Damn: The article I sent you to does not describe the problem.

What has happened is that you have pasted from a web browser into the VBA
editor. In the web browser, all the spaces were transposed into
non-breaking spaces to preserve the layout, because HTML rules munch
multiple spaces into one.

Unfortunately, to the Mac Word VBA editor a non-breaking space is a
different character -- it's not "white space", and it gives you this
error.

The cure is to replace all the spaces in front of the red lines with
"real"
spaces, and the problem will go away. If you have to do a lot of them,
paste the text first into a blank Word document, then use Find/Replace to
replace the non-breaking spaces with ordinary spaces.

Beth: That's the second user today who has been hit with this problem.
Could you please add that note prominently to the web article?

Cheers

On 11/7/06 12:59 PM, in article
(e-mail address removed),
"(e-mail address removed)"

Thanks Elliott and John for your suggestions.

Unfortunately trashing Normal didn't do it, nor did the screen
resolution strategy. I tried running the Macro below and it looks as
if it's buggy? It's my first time with Macros, but I read the linked
file explaining how to do it.

When I try running it, I get "syntax error"
in the VBE interface, four lines are red, which seems to mean
problematic:

.Enabled = True
.Visible = True
.RowIndex = 9 ' Docking order
.Left = 0

Those four lines. Any fixes? other suggestions. I'm getting desperate
here!
Thanks so much,
Matt


John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh] wrote:
Here you go: run the following macro:

Sub ReviewingReveal()

Dim tb As CommandBar

Set tb = Application.CommandBars("Reviewing")

With tb
.Enabled = True
.Visible = True
.RowIndex = 9 ' Docking order
.Left = 0
End With

End Sub


If you don't know how, see here:
http://word.mvps.org/mac/installmacro.html

Cheers


On 10/7/06 2:39 PM, in article
(e-mail address removed),
"(e-mail address removed)"

Please help...

I've been having trouble displaying the Reviewing Toolbar. No amount
of toggling/untoggling, restarting Word, restarting my computer, or
even reinstalling Office has helped so far. I'm struggling with
reviewing and working on collaborative documents without this toolbar.
It worked fine for a couple of months after I first installed Office
2004 (Word version 11.2), but the toolbar then started appearing in
strange places and wouldn't let me drag it to the top of the screen.
Finally it just disappeared altogether. The other toolbars appear
unaffected.

Please help if you have any suggestions.

Matt
Powerbook G4; 1GHz; OSX 10.4.7


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