Re: Word toolbars

In article <4C5F8C69-0767-4754-ABE6-0FD8D211D27D@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Frank
<Frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Beth Rosengard" wrote:

Hi Frank,

What version of the OS are you in exactly?

10.4.6

And to what level do you have
Office updated?

11.2 (060202)



Once Frank answers those questions, can anyone else in the same versions
replicate this behavior? I can't in OS 10.3.9, Office 11.2.1.
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I have exactly the same version of OS X and Office as Frank, on a 12"
Powerbook 1GHz.

I'm not the best person to ask, because I would not know what a toolbar
was if it jumped up and bit me on the bum. If I can't hack the keyboard
shortcuts it doesn't get done. (I had a major panic moment today when I
forgot what keyboard shorcuts I had assigned to next and previous
tracked change. I had to put a clothespeg on my nose and bring up the
reviewing toolbar in the vain hope that hovering over the button would
either disclose the shortcut I had assigned or at least off some clue
into the twisted mentality of whatever extra-terrestrial alien at
Microsoft might have named the command or even what category it chose
to put it in [1])
However, in the spirit of scientific enquiry I woke up a few toolbars
and stood them up, and laid them down, and placed 'em on different
places on both screens and flicked in and out of several other
applications, both Carbon and Cocoa in case it was a graphics engine
thing.

You can guess what comes next can't you?

I could not make it go wrong.

I dunno what to suggest. Frank? Do you have any haxies or other
fiendish add-ons, particularly the sort of thing that makes dock icons
and windows transparent? If yes, what happens when you go into system
prefs and disable the little snivellers?

1. Could somebody please explain why the command to go to the next
comment called GotoNextComment is in the editing category, and the
command to go to the next tracked change is called
ToolsRevisionMarksNext and is in the Tools category and why the other
command called NextChangeOrComment is in the the Tools category, miles
away from its kissing cousin in the almost un-navigable, completely
unstretchable 2 cm high commands box?

Can anybody see any rhyme or reason for the Quixotic naming and
categorising conventions, other than a wish to keep users at arms
length, dazed and confused?
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