MS Word Missing Toolbars

I don't use Office2000.
About reinstall: first deinstall and after that reinstall with custom options where you can sellect all options you need. For Office97 exists an eraser which clean system and registry. I think that also exist eraser2000.

There are several possible answers. The most likely is that you need to close Word, rename the file normal.dot, and then restart Word.

If that does not work follow the procedures outlined in this article:
http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q242368

Nothing that complicated, we hope.

Start Word.
Bring up the toolbars section.
There should be a reset button. Click it.
There should be a dropdown box with at least one choice - normal.dot. Choose it. (if that isn't there, THEN it gets complicated. )
You should have a list of toolbars, many of which are checked. Click the ok button.
Hopefully, you are good to go after that.

If you didn't have normal.dot or this still didn't restore your toolbars, bring up the customize options again and click on the Commands tab. You can drag and drop the commands as needed from there. This is a pain, but it works, assuming your installation of word is not corrupt.

HTH
~nikki~

Locate and rename Normal.dot.
Also look at:
(TYpe the Q number in the search box at support.microsoft.com)

Toolbars, Menu Bar Missing, or Settings Not Retained When You Start Word 2000

Q242368

Have you ?

Started word
Right click on help.
Choose customize ?

This allows access to customize the tool bar.