Re: Style sheets and Column Breaks

From: Beth Rosengard (bethrosengard_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 03/27/04 

Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 16:32:48 -0800

Hi JC,

Go to Tools> Customize, make sure the Menu Bar is selected (it should be by
default) and click Reset. If that doesn't do it, try testing your Normal
template and Settings files as follows:

1) Quit Word and navigate to your Normal template which should be in
/Applications/Microsoft Office X/Templates/. Rename Normal to something else
(like OldNormal), then relaunch Word. If this fixes the problem but you
have customizations, etc, in OldNormal that you want to maintain, you can
use Organizer to transfer those from OldNormal to the newly-created Normal
template. Then you can trash the old renamed file. To learn how to use
Organizer, see here (use IE not Safari to view this site):
<http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/WordMac/MacWordNormalTemplate.htm>

If this doesn't fix the problem, quit Word again, trash the new Normal and
rename OldNormal back to Normal.

2) To test your Preference files, quit *all* Office Applications.
Navigate to your ~/library/preferences/Microsoft folder. Rename the
Microsoft Component Preferences, Word Settings (10), and Microsoft Office
Settings (10) files. When you restart Word, these files will be recreated.
If all is well, you can trash the old files. You will have to reset some
Preferences and AutoCorrect settings.

If this doesn't help, you can trash the new files and rename the old ones
back.

Hope this helps. 

-- 
Beth Rosengard
Mac MVP
Mac Word FAQ:  <http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/WordMac/index.htm>
Entourage Help Page:  <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>
On 3/26/04 4:22 PM, in article 116c001c41391$8f1fad20$a601280a@phx.gbl, "J.
Connell" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> DM, thanks for the suggestion.  I've installed all of the updates you listed,
> but they didn't fix the problem.  I still don't have "column break" in the
> "Insert" menu.
> 
> JC
>> -----Original Message-----
>> I'm using Office X, version 10.0.0 (1316) on OS X (10.3.3), and I have 2
>> problems/opportunities:
>> 
>> 1. -- When I assign a shortcut key to a style, the shortcut key only works
> on 
>> the machine where it's been assigned. When I open the document on
>> another computer on the network, the shortcut keys are no longer
> assigned 
>> to the styles. I'm using the F1 and F2 keys.
>> 
>> 2. -- The "Insert>Breaks>Column Break" path is missing on one of our
>> computers. Instead, the Insert menu has separate "Page Break" and
> "Section 
>> Break" options, but no "Column Break" option. Even the Command-Shift-R
>> shortcut doesn't work. In other words, there's no way to add a column
> break 
>> on this particular computer.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for your help.
>> Andy
>> .
>>