Tools Window

[adam.pitre]

I use word for mac and used to have a window open beside my main
document that contained the tools to change the fonts, alignment etc.
I closed it and now can't get it back up. How do I get it back?

 

[JE McGimpsey]

I use word for mac and used to have a window open beside my main
document that contained the tools to change the fonts, alignment etc.
I closed it and now can't get it back up. How do I get it back?

Do you mean the Formatting Palette (Choose View/Formatting Palette)?

 

[CyberTaz]

If it is the Formatting Palette you're missing there's also a button on the
Standard Toolbar that turns it back on - it's the one right between the
Toolbox button and the Zoom box.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[JE McGimpsey]

If it is the Formatting Palette you're missing there's also a button on the
Standard Toolbar that turns it back on - it's the one right between the
Toolbox button and the Zoom box.

Thanks, Bob - I forget about the Standard Toolbar...

 

[CyberTaz]

Thanks, Bob - I forget about the Standard Toolbar...

I'm surprised you didn't provide a macro - you coders *hate* to do things
the easy way ;-)

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[John McGhie]

I'm not: The Formatting Palette is the illegitimate off-spring of the Task
Pane: VBA can't address it.

Another product of the Big Brother school of application design...

I'm surprised you didn't provide a macro - you coders *hate* to do things
the easy way ;-)

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

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[JE McGimpsey]

I'm not: The Formatting Palette is the illegitimate off-spring of the Task
Pane: VBA can't address it.

Another product of the Big Brother school of application design...

Huh?? The Formatting Palette is just a CommandBar. In the immediate
window type:

?TypeName(CommandBars("Formatting Palette"))

which returns

CommandBar

So I *could* have replied with

CommandBars("Formatting Palette").Visible = True

Granted, the commandbar is crippled - one can't add or modify controls
on it, more's the pity, but my startup macro positions the palette and
makes it visible.

 

[John McGhie]

Ah hah!! So it's crippled in exactly the same limbs as the Task Pane.
Sigh...

Huh?? The Formatting Palette is just a CommandBar. In the immediate
window type:

?TypeName(CommandBars("Formatting Palette"))

which returns

CommandBar

So I *could* have replied with

CommandBars("Formatting Palette").Visible = True

Granted, the commandbar is crippled - one can't add or modify controls
on it, more's the pity, but my startup macro positions the palette and
makes it visible.

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[JE McGimpsey]

Ah hah!! So it's crippled in exactly the same limbs as the Task Pane.
Sigh...

Well, some folks *do* insist they want MacOffice to work like
WinOffice...

 

[Mark Baker]

I use word for mac and used to have a window open beside my main
document that contained the tools to change the fonts, alignment etc.
I closed it and now can't get it back up. How do I get it back?

I have somehow positioned the tool palette off screen. When I hit the
macro to show/hide it works fine, but the formating palette still opens
off screen. I tried restarting the doc, restarting the app, and
restarting the computer... no help.
I have tried using different screen resolutions to make the screen
"bigger." No help.

I am using an eMac. Don't ask how this happened; I don't know how the
palette could end up off screen where the mouse can't access it.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

I am using an eMac. Don't ask how this happened; I don't know how the
palette could end up off screen where the mouse can't access it.

See

mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/office/formattingpalettegone.html

 

[John McGhie]

Yeah, *me* for example. But I also campaigned vociferously for full
programmability of the Task Pane.

Didn't get that either...

Well, some folks *do* insist they want MacOffice to work like
WinOffice...

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