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Excel Missing File Menu

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by waltknochjr

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My Excel [File] menu, and other menus on the top line are missing. Therefore, File, Edit, View, etc. selections are not there. How do I get them back?

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by ann777

Try a Alt-V and then an Alt-U ; this should place Excel in Full Screen Mode... then see if these options appear on top. Then close it.

You might also look for a "pipe-like" symbol (like this: | but with dashes stacked on top of each other in apipe like stack). These usually begin every toolbar line, but it may have been dragged to the end of another line. Look too, for >> at the right side and scroll to the right to see if the toolbar was misplaced there (if yes, then grab that pipe-like symbol and drag it back to it's own line on the left side of the screen).

by waltknochjr

Ctrl-V brought up a menu from which we selected Full-Screen. That gave us back our main menu. Ctrl-U did do anything, but once we had the main menu back we added the toolbars we wanted and are back in business. Thanks!

by jmiller1

Are they missing in ALL instances of Excel or just in a particular workbook you are opening?

ALL Instances:
Look in 'Pgm Files\Microsoft Office\Office\XLStart' for any XLA files that may be there. Someone may have added a macro to Excel thathides the menus. If you find any, move them out of this folder and see if that corrects the problem.

One Workbook:
You can try pressing ALT+F11 to open the Visual Basic editor and looking through the Workbook and Sheet objects and Modules tosee if there is any code that is causing this to happen.

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