file menu abbreviated

[Ron Patterson]

RE Office XP - both Word 2002 and Excel 2002
when I click on File on the top menu bar - the only options I get now on
the drop down menu are Save, Save As, and the last 4 files opened. All else
has disappeared.
Any ideas?
A. Baba
Blue Master

 

[goober]

Often Excel hides menu options that are not frequently used. Look and
see if there is a double arrow pointing downward at the bottom of your
drop down menu. Clicking on this double arrow should reveal all the
items for the menu.

Hope it helps.

 

[Ron Patterson]

I wish it was that easy. Thanks for trying. No double arrows.
However, I did receive the answer from the Word newsgroup and it worked for
both programs.

"Right click the menu bar, Customize>Options>Always show full menu"
Greg Maxey/Word MVP

A. Baba

 

[Bob Phillips]

That is exactly what the previous poster was alluding to, so you must have
had the arrows.

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HTH

Bob Phillips

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[David McRitchie]

Probably not the kind of arrows he was looking for, looks more like a
double chevron (in Excel 2002). You usually see a filled downward triangle
on such things as drop down menus, and a filled triangle pointing the right for
submenus on menus. .

But I expect that except for some Excel developer at Microsoft most people want
a "permanent" solution/return to show everything in the menus as they are used to
and which he received elsewhere.