Re: Strange case of the disappearing menus
From: Oz Springs (oz.springs_at_anywhere.com)
Date: 12/02/04
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Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 16:42:36 +0000
Thank you very much for your help.
Oz
On 2/12/04 11:10, in article
jemcgimpsey-5A9321.04104202122004@msnews.microsoft.com, "JE McGimpsey"
<jemcgimpsey@mvps.org> wrote:
> In article <BDD49B72.C06%oz-springs@dsl.pipex.com>,
> Oz Springs <oz-springs@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
>
>> In the customize Toolbars/Menus dialog box there is a toolbar called
>> ³Shortcut Menus². I switch this on by clicking on the little blue button at
>> the left, and a little toolbar with ³Text² Table² and ³Draw² displays until
>> I click ³OK² to close the dialog box. The toolbar vanishes too.
>
> You're seeing the contextual menus, that you get when you ctrl-click
> (right-click if you have a two-button mouse). They don't show up out of
> context, so the parent toolbar disappears.
>
> You *can* modify the contextual menus. For instance, I just dragged the
> Autotext control to the Text/Fields menu. After going back to Word, I
> inserted a field, then right-clicked on the field. There was Autotext,
> right at the top of the menu.
>
> Note: because they're contextual, some shortcut menus have placeholders
> instead of controls, and are modified during run-time to fit the context.
>
>> I notice that under the ³Draw² menu there is a command for activeX control,
>> so am I seeing a toolbar which is really meant for PCs? [or are Macs now
>> using ActiveX in some circumstances. If so, where?]
>
> Macs aren't running ActiveX. However, to be compatible with WinWord and
> WinWord macros, the contextual menu is included. It'll never show up
> because you won't find an ActiveX control to right-click.
>
>
>> I¹ve also tried to put items from the toolbar into other menus, but this
>> does not work either.
>
> Drag commands from the Commands pane to the menus - AFAIK, there's
> nothing on the Shortcut menus that isn't also in the Commands list.
>
> However, you can drag controls (not menus) from the contextual menus to
> other toolbars, and, if they're in context, they'll work just fine.
>
>> If nothing works from this toolbar, and it isn¹t in Word 2004 by mistake,
>> what is the purpose of it? Or is there another bug peculiar to my Mac
>> affecting Word again?
>
> One probably shouldn't assume that, just because one doesn't understand
> it, it's a bug. You could have found the information about the Shortcut
> menu toolbar if you'd looked up "shortcut menu" in Word Help. The first
> 6 or 7 entries deal with keyboard shortcuts, but after that there's the
> "Customize contextual menu" entry that would told you what that toolbar
> is for.
>
> Admittedly the terms "contextual menu" and "shortcut menu" don't match
> exactly, but with a bit of persistence, Word's Help is comprehensive
> enough to answer most of your questions.
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