Toolbars

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lexophile

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel

Hello

Under view, I have the "Standard" and "Formatting" toolbars selected. However, I can only see the "Formatting" toolbar, the "Standard" toolbar is nowhere to be found (even though it is selected). Does anyone have any tips? Thanks.
 
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John McGhie

John McGimpsey wrote a macro to fix this:

http://www.mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/office/formattingpalettegone.html

In your case, you need to change the name to 'Standard':
Application.CommandBars("Standard").Top = 100

Hope this helps

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel

Hello

Under view, I have the "Standard" and "Formatting" toolbars selected. However,
I can only see the "Formatting" toolbar, the "Standard" toolbar is nowhere to
be found (even though it is selected). Does anyone have any tips? Thanks.

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Jenn

Where's the web toolbar in macOffice2008/Word? I used it in 2004 version, to insert links to documents in Mail without having to attach documents to the message itself.
 
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Daiya Mitchell

The Web toolbar is gone, sorry. Uh, I don't quite understand what you
were using it for, or what "documents in Mail" means. Can you give more
detail about what you used to do and what the result was? Perhaps there
is an alternate method. You can create hyperlinks via Insert | Hyperlink.
 
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jenn

I use the Mail application. Instead of clogging up email folders by sending attachments esp to colleagues in the office, we used to insert links to the document filed on a shared volume. When a colleague received the email, they just clicked on the 'live' link in the mail message, and that took them to the document on the shared drive.

I know you can insert a link to a document in a mail message but you have to type the whole long path/url. It takes ages and you have to get it exactly right! In Word 2004, one could 'view' the web toolbar and when you opened the word document from the shared volume, you could see the filepath/url and just drag it in to the mail message!
 
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Daiya Mitchell

Oh, okay, that makes much more sense. Rephrasing your question--you need
a quick way to figure out and copy the filepath of the network-stored
document you are currently viewing in Word.

Here's my best guess--Anyone else have a better idea?

In the document, Insert | AutoText | Header/Footer | Filepath and
Name. Does that give you something you can copy and paste and have a
clickable link when it arrives in Mail? It might not be clickable until
the message actually arrives, depending. You might need to add "file://"
to the beginning of the filepath to make it a link, or possibly some
other prefix depending on where the document is--I don't use shared
volumes, so I'm not sure about that. Once you copy and paste the
filepath, you can delete the field in the document.

I realize it's not that quick--first test if it works, then there are
probably ways to speed it up.

You can let MS know you want this functionality back---but *don't* just
say "give me the web toolbar back!". Explain how you used it, as you did
here. Send MS a message by using Help | Send Feedback in Word.
 
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Daiya Mitchell

Daiya said:
Oh, okay, that makes much more sense. Rephrasing your question--you
need a quick way to figure out and copy the filepath of the
network-stored document you are currently viewing in Word.
Actually, I found a much more efficient way to do this by using a script
to copy the filepath directly to the clipboard. Is the filename and
path all you need, Jenn, or did you have to add a prefix to make the
link work?
 
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jenn

hi
The link did not work - that is, it did not become a 'live' clickable link when the message was sent. I added file:// in frot of the filename/path but it still did not work.

Maybe the cript might do it!
Thanks a lot!
 
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Daiya Mitchell

No, it's more complicated than that, it turns out. I restated the
question wrong. It's not just getting the filepath, but also converting
it to a URL-style filepath, as the basic pathname uses a different
format that won't create a clickable link.

This should be doable, though--in fact, other people have already done
it. Can you post an example of a link that does work to open the doc on
your network, messages you sent while using Word 2004? (Change the name
of a folder or something so that the link doesn't really work--it just
needs to show the structure)
 
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Daiya Mitchell

Can you go a little bit further on, enough to show the difference
between a URL that works and what you get when you use the AutoText
Filename? Give an example of both, if you could.
 

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