Why did the commands I placed on my own line disappear?

[Kitty U.]

Windows 7 allows you to create your own command line. I had two. After
powering down this weekend, I came back to Word and Excel and my own command
lines had disappeared. Can anyone tell me why this happened? It takes at
least 20 minutes to reconfigure the commands since they are not organized in
any useful fashion--that is, grouped by applications to which they apply or
applications which might use them.

I know Microsoft thinks it knows better than I do about what I need or like,
but I have found their arrogance unwarranted. In fact, I'd like to get rid
of all their tabs and create and populate my own. There's a References,
Mailings and Review Tab which I will never use. And then they've loaded the
Home tab with useless (for me) Styles section which, as far as I am
concerned, uses a lot of space which I could use to get the commands I use
most often to be more accessible.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Ask your Windows 7 questions in a Windows 7 forum. This one is for Word.

If you meant Word 2007 - what do you mean by 'command lines'? Many user
configurations will be stored by default in the normal template
(normal.dotm). If you have not saved the template after making the changes,
or if this is a company PC and the IT department routinely replaces your
normal template then the personal settings will not be saved.

As for the Word 2007 ribbon, the standard settings were a design choice by
Microsoft and like anything new the ribbon caused a lot of controversy when
it was introduced. If you want to edit the ribbon, you can -
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Customize_Ribbon.htm . The forthcoming Word 2010
will have an integral ribbon editor, similar to that at
http://ribboncustomizer.com/ .

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP


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