Toolbar corruption

[Paul B]

Hi. I'm beginning to get some fairly regular corruption of one of
my toolbars - a custom one that happens to point to several
macros. Typically, the bar will turn itself off or the upper icon
row of the bar will be overlaid on the bar's title bar.

Usually the bar is still functional, but this time hovering over
that top icon row caused the mouse pointer to turn into a
persistent Move cross. Word went dead to the mouse entirely, and
I saved and exited via the keyboard. On reopening everything was
fine.

I'm concerned that my normal.dot is degenerating. I went through
and cut out a lot of defunct macros, paring it down to about
175kb. There are no controls in it, only macros, customizations,
and the toolbar.

Is there anything I should do to cure this, or prevent it from
getting worse?

Word '03 on Win XP.

Thanks,
p.

 

[Terry Farrell]

It suggests that Word doesn't think the toolbar is docked but is still
floating and from your description, it sounds as though occasionally, the
top may be under the title bar.

Mouse click problems are often due to the Word Data Key corrupting. I
suggest that you run Regedit and delete the key: Word will automatically
recreate a new key when it is next started.

Word DataKey

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\version number\Word\Data

 

[Paul B]

It suggests that Word doesn't think the toolbar is docked but is still
floating and from your description, it sounds as though occasionally, the
top may be under the title bar.

Mouse click problems are often due to the Word Data Key corrupting. I
suggest that you run Regedit and delete the key: Word will automatically
recreate a new key when it is next started.

Word DataKey

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\version number\Word\Data

Thanks much Terry. I think I neglected to mention that the
toolbar is a floater. I did some reading on the MVP site
yesterday, and it mentioned something about section ends in
documents being a cause of corruptions. I've cleaned up some of
my docs, now using tables rather than columns. So far today, I
haven't seen any problems. I'll continue to monitor and I will
hold on to this registry key fix.

p.

 

[Terry Farrell]

If that type of corruption is to blame, then using the Open and Repair
option should find and resolve them.

Terry

 

[Paul B]

Ok, thanks. I'll keep that trick handy too. So far the problem
hasn't surfaced again.

p.