Scroll bar missing in word documents

[Cheney1]

For some reason today when I opened a word document, the scroll bar on the
left side is missing. OOPs, what ever did I do, and how do I get it back.
It is gone in all my word documents, but there in excell,etc.

 

[Stefan Blom]

From Word 2003 Help online:

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Show the vertical ruler or scroll bar

The feature or some of the options described in this Help topic are only
available if support for right-to-left (right-to-left: Refers to keyboard
settings, document views, user interface objects, and the direction in which
text is displayed. Arabic and Hebrew are right-to-left languages.) languages
is enabled through Microsoft Office Language Settings.

Set the location of the vertical ruler

1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the View tab.
2. Under Print and Web Layout options, select the Vertical ruler (Print
view only) check box.
3. Select or clear the Right ruler (Print view only) check box.

Set the location of the vertical scroll bar

1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the View tab.
2. Under Show, select the Vertical scroll bar check box.
3. If you are using the right ruler, you can select or clear the Left
scroll bar check box.
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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP