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Toolbar button drop-down menus disappear

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Cubbie_Gal - 06 Jun 2007 18:57 GMT
I have problems with Office apps when using toolbar icons with drop-down
menus/boxes such as Highlight color, Font color, Autoshapes, Line Color, Fill
color.  If I have multiple Office applications open (such as Word, Excel,
Outlook, etc.), sometimes when I'm working in one app and click on a toolbar
icon with a drop-down menu, the menu doesn't appear.  But if I minimize the
app, I find the drop-down menu/box "floating" on the desktop or in some other
Office application.  It's like Office gets confused as to which of the apps
the toolbar belongs to.  Only when I close all the apps, and reopen just the
one that I was working with at the time, does this get resolved.  And
sometimes when I close the apps, the "floating" toolbar menu/box is still
there and I can't get rid of it.

Definitely a bug, but I can't seem to find any posts about this.  Does
anyone know if there is a fix for this?  It's driving me nuts that I can't
have multiple Office apps open and use these toolbar functions.
Herb Tyson [MVP] - 06 Jun 2007 20:16 GMT
What you're seeing suggests that your display driver isn't on good "speaking
terms" with Office. Often this sort of thing can be resolved by updating to
a later/newer display driver. I would try that route first, and then after
updating the display driver, I would try repairing Office, just to make sure
that all of its bits are present and accounted for.

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>I have problems with Office apps when using toolbar icons with drop-down
> menus/boxes such as Highlight color, Font color, Autoshapes, Line Color,
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> anyone know if there is a fix for this?  It's driving me nuts that I can't
> have multiple Office apps open and use these toolbar functions.
 
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