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teve - 14 Dec 2004 21:23 GMT

I have lost the bar in word that contains the <File Edit View Favorites Tools
Help> keys. Can anybody assist me in telling me how I can put this button bar
back. I use Windows XP and for my other users the bar is still entact.

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garfield-n-odie - 14 Dec 2004 21:29 GMT

Hi, teve. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissngMenusEtc.htm .

> I have lost the bar in word that contains the <File Edit View Favorites Tools
> Help> keys. Can anybody assist me in telling me how I can put this button bar
> back. I use Windows XP and for my other users the bar is still entact.

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teve - 16 Dec 2004 13:05 GMT

Excellent your pointer to the 'how to' sheet worked and I now have the
standard buttons back - corrupt registry. Note: the use of winword.exe /a did
not want to work with my ver (using XP and Office 2000 Word was ver 9). Hence
used the edit in registry to delete the corrupt file. And as it said:
Everything is lovely in the Garden again. Big thanks to you.

> Hi, teve. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissngMenusEtc.htm .
>
> > I have lost the bar in word that contains the <File Edit View Favorites Tools
> > Help> keys. Can anybody assist me in telling me how I can put this button bar
> > back. I use Windows XP and for my other users the bar is still entact.

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garfield-n-odie - 16 Dec 2004 16:55 GMT

Glad you got things working again. Thanks for the feedback.

> Excellent your pointer to the 'how to' sheet worked and I now have the
> standard buttons back - corrupt registry. Note: the use of winword.exe /a did
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>>>Help> keys. Can anybody assist me in telling me how I can put this button bar
>>>back. I use Windows XP and for my other users the bar is still entact.

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Beth Melton - 17 Dec 2004 18:22 GMT

The /a switch is will work in Word 97 - Word 2003. It could be you
omitted the space before the forward slash or you needed to provide
the full path to winword.exe. For example:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office" /a

In any case, glad to hear you have the problem resolved.

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> Note: the use of winword.exe /a did
> not want to work with my ver (using XP and Office 2000 Word was ver
> 9). Hence
> used the edit in registry to delete the corrupt file.

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