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: Hello
: I was not trying to drag and drop. I never need nor do such courageous
: things...
: I was only trying to open the TOOLS menu, something I do many times. But
I
: may have inadvertently done it with the right instead of the left click.
: The result was that the word TOOLS became a tiny removable box, it got
stuck
: to the mouse arrow, and when I tried to click it, it was gone.
: I did all I know to find it, include all your instructions here, but all
: instructions start with going into the TOOL menu, and I have no TOOL menu
so
: I can proceed in any direction.
:
: I want to do something completely different this time, RE-INSTALL Office
: 2003 from my original disc which is now 5 years old and never been used
: after original installation. Questions:
: 1) Do I have first to remove the existing Office 2003 or I can install it
: on top of it?
: 2) And if I must delete first the old Office in order to install it ANEW,
: A) then how to do that,
: B) and what are the side effects of such a deep surgery?
:
: Many thanks for a reply
: Janet
:
:
:
:
: : > It sounds like you were trying to drag and drop from the left-hand part
of
: > the dialog box, headed "Categories" (containing File, Edit, View, Insert
: > etc); you can only drag from the right-hand part, "Commands" (New...,
New,
: > New |>, New Web Page, etc).
: >
: > If you haven't customised your menu bar, the quickest thing might be to
: > reset it (resetting will lose your customisations). To do that, do the
: > right-click > Customize bit you've described but then choose the
leftmost
: > tab along the top, "Toolbars". Click once on "Menu Bar" to select it (it
: > highlights - don't worry about the ticks, they're just for what displays
: > in Word) then click on the "Reset..." button on the right. I think it
: > prompts you to confirm that you do indeed want to do this (not 100% sure
: > as I'm not going to try it myself!). Say yes, OK/Close your way out.
This
: > should set it back to how you want.
: >
: > If you're experiencing what I think TaurArian is describing (and I'm not
: > sure it is), and want "to see all the menu items and not just last used
: > items on the menu", then when you click on the word "Tools" you should
: > see a double-ended downward-pointing arrow at the bottom of the list of
: > items that does appear. Hovering your mouse over this will expand the
list
: > to show all items. To fix this, do the right-click > Customize but
choose
: > the rightmost tab, "Options", select "Always show full menus", and OK
your
: > way back out.
: >
: > It might be worth noting that if you have Word open but no *document*
: > open, many items in the lists under Menu items are greyed out anyway,
: > including "Options" under "Tools".
: >
: > For future reference, this group is for problems with Windows XP itself,
: > and Word isn't part of the XP operating system (although often bundled
: > with new PCs). If you have any more issues with Word, you would be
better
: > off posting in one of the dedicated Word groups such as
: > microsoft.public.word.newusers. (That said, feel free to reply to this
: > post if you have further questions on this particular issue - I'll reply
: > if I can!)
: >
: > Hope this all helps.
: >
: > janet-m wrote:
: >> Hi
: >> I use the menu "Tools" often. But what happen now I never thought
: >> possible.
: >> I clicked on Tools to open it but instead a tiny box, the size of the
: >> word Tools appeared under my mouse and when I clicked it, instead of
: >> opening the tools menu,
: >> the entire thing with the menu Tools word is gone. I can't find it.
: >>
: >> I right clicked the menu bar and got the "Customize" window where it
: >> tells me to highlight and drag the word menu to the bar but it will
: >> not do it.
: >> Does anyone know where to find the menu "Tools" and how to restore it?
: >>
: >> Many thanks
: >> Janet
: >
: >
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