MS Word without menu bar

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I recently came across a Windows ME machine with an MS Works package
installed that included a copy of MS Word 2000 SP1. The unusual thing is
that there was no menu bar visible, nor could one be persuaded to appear
at any time, when Word was running.

Ruler bars would appear when the mouse hovered near the top or left
window borders and I could get some toolbars to appear but I could never
get the standard menu (File Edit View etc.) to come up. I even repaired,
de-installed and re-installed it from CD with no effect.

The program ran normally otherwise.

Can anyone tell me what might have been going on. Is there any way to
repair this? Very difficult for the user to do much of anything. I've
never seen something like it before.
 
Bonjour,

Dans son message, notre ami < charles > nous laissait savoir que :
In this message, our friend < charles > informed us that:


|| I recently came across a Windows ME machine with an MS Works package
|| installed that included a copy of MS Word 2000 SP1. The unusual thing is
|| that there was no menu bar visible, nor could one be persuaded to appear
|| at any time, when Word was running.
||
|| Ruler bars would appear when the mouse hovered near the top or left
|| window borders and I could get some toolbars to appear but I could never
|| get the standard menu (File Edit View etc.) to come up. I even repaired,
|| de-installed and re-installed it from CD with no effect.
||
|| The program ran normally otherwise.
||
|| Can anyone tell me what might have been going on. Is there any way to
|| repair this? Very difficult for the user to do much of anything. I've
|| never seen something like it before.


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See

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/RestoreMenuCmd.htm

and if that does not help,

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm

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Salut!
_______________________________________
Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
(e-mail address removed)
Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org
 
Jean-Guy
Just for the record, some news readers do not display the parts of the
message that follow the signature separator. Remember to move the separator
when using that shortcut :)

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Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word
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Bonjour,

Dans son message, notre ami < Graham Mayor > nous laissait savoir que :
In this message, our friend < Graham Mayor > informed us that:


|| Jean-Guy
|| Just for the record, some news readers do not display the parts of the
|| message that follow the signature separator. Remember to move the
separator
|| when using that shortcut :)
||

You mean the "--"?
Well, I'll be...

Why would someone design something to remove a signature?
Thanks for the tip.

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Salut!
_______________________________________
Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
(e-mail address removed)
Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org
 
Who can fathom the minds of software designers, and the requirements of some
users :)
I was only reminded of it by the fact that I use OE-Quotefix, which attempts
to make sense of long threads and your message didn't appear to have any
content - until I looked more closely and saw that you had used a proforma
sig. with the response.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

Web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word
<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<>
 
Bonjour,

Dans son message, notre ami < Graham Mayor > nous laissait savoir que :
In this message, our friend < Graham Mayor > informed us that:


|| Who can fathom the minds of software designers, and the requirements of
some
|| users :)
|| I was only reminded of it by the fact that I use OE-Quotefix, which
attempts
|| to make sense of long threads and your message didn't appear to have any
|| content - until I looked more closely and saw that you had used a
proforma
|| sig. with the response.

I have recently been introduced to the wonders of QuoteFix by a fellow MVP
in the newly created French private NG... So I am new to it myself.. What is
a Proforma signature?

TIA

||
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|| <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<>
|| Graham Mayor - Word MVP
||
|| Web site www.gmayor.com
|| Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word
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||
||
||
|| Jean-Guy Marcil wrote:
||| Bonjour,
|||
||| Dans son message, notre ami < Graham Mayor > nous laissait savoir que
|||| In this message, our friend < Graham Mayor > informed us that:
|||
|||
||||| Jean-Guy
||||| Just for the record, some news readers do not display the parts of
||||| the message that follow the signature separator. Remember to move
||||| the separator when using that shortcut :)
|||||
|||
||| You mean the "--"?
||| Well, I'll be...
|||
||| Why would someone design something to remove a signature?
||| Thanks for the tip.

--
Salut!
_______________________________________
Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
(e-mail address removed)
Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org
 
I have recently been introduced to the wonders of QuoteFix by a
fellow MVP in the newly created French private NG... So I am new to
it myself.. What is a Proforma signature?
Click to expand...

By this I meant a signature that includes the answer to a question, thus you
can reply with a couple of mouse clicks. I have a few of those myself, but I
can never remember what I called them - it's an age thing - and so I tend to
retype as I can type quickly.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

Web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word
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