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by joe donahue

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Help! I don't know what I could've done but when I open Word I am missing the menu bar at the top of the page. I tried everything from trying to use the keyboard shortcuts to uninstalling and reinstalling Office 2000 disk 1 and 2. I also replaced the NORMAL.DOT file. What could it be? And what can I do to fix it.

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by syscokid

There are symptoms and solutions here:

support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q242368

by sgt_shultz

pardon me if this is dumb, but do your other office applications show *their* menu bars?

you could try this:
open Word
pick tools/customize
hightlight the 'standard' entry (should also be checked)
pick reset (bottom right)
highlight 'formatting' (should also be checked)
pick reset

hope this helps

by joe donahue

I should have mentioned that the menu bar were present when opening Excel and the other office apps - however it is not possible to pick tools because all I get is the blue bar up top and the document nothing else - hitting 'alt F' to get to File orin the case of Tools 'alt t' doesn't do anything. Thanks for trying

by bmcafee

From the menu select View->Toolbars and select the menu you are missing. Standard and Formatting are most common. You can move menus where you want them by dragging them with your mouse.

by joe donahue

Sorry if I didn't make it clear enough but I could't get to any menu - all I got was the blue bar at the top and the rest of the page was the actuall document - However, what I wound up doing was creating another user account for the user on this Win2K Workstation. When I logged on as the new user everything came back - it must have been something corrupt in the original user profile.

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