Re: Toolbar Icons Disappear

On Jul 20, 12:05 pm, CyberTaz <onlygeneralt...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Robert -

Vertical toolbar? Are you referring to the Formatting Palette? If so, what
you're witnessing is not a bug nor is there any need to fix it. It *is* an
intended feature over which you have full control, and many people like the
ability to have less hidden while the Palette is displayed but not currently
in use. Change the settings to suit your own preferences.

At the bottom edge of the Palette click the small black triangle & select
Hide When Inactive to clear the check... Or go one step further by choosing
Customize Formatting Palette instead. Adjust the settings as you wish.

If you mean something other than this you'll need to be more explicit and
specify which version of Word, OS X and type of Mac in order for someone to
know what the problem is.

BTW: Rants & threats do no good here. None of the participants are MS
employees and - no offense - we really couldn't care less what software you
choose to use or why:)

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

On 7/20/07 2:54 AM, in article
1184914441.744853.130...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,

"Robert.Huf...@xxxxxxx" <Robert.Huf...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Vertical toolbar icons disappear!! Bug?
If switching between applications, the icons on the toolbar often
disappear when
Word is activated again. Running the cursor over the toolbar from top
to bottom
will make them magically appear again, though I doubt this is what MS
intended.
This must be a bug.

This has been posted by someone 2004 and someone at MS acknowledged
that they are working on it. Now we are in 2007. Hey, is such an
annoyance so unimportant or so difficult to fix that it takes three
years? I might have a look at NeoOffice to see if that works better.

Hi Bob,

many thanks for your quick response and sorry for my wording last time
but sometimes emotions just kick in:-). To be more specific here is my
environment:

MacBook/2GB
Max OS X 10.4.10
Word 10.3.5. 070413

I am not referring to the formatting palette but to the toolbars. I
usually have 4 Toolbars on my display: Menu Bar, Standard, Formatting
and Review. In order to maximize the amount of text on the screen I
prefer to have the toolbars beside the main window so I resize them to
be vertically. After some time of work the icons in the toolbars
disappear. The toolbar just turns **white**, sometimes partially,
sometimes completely. So if I want to save some work using the save
icon, I have to move the mouse pointer across the whole toolbar to
make the icons reappear icon by icon and to find the save icon.

I also tried the resize triangle in the lower right corner of the
toolbar. Clicking on it ALL icons on the tooolbar disappeared and the
toolbar turned white completely.

Funny enough, after resizing the toolbar to be horizontal and klicking
the resize triangle in the lower right corner, the icons no longer
disappear.

Another interesting fact is that I have selected "Menu Bar" as one of
my displayed toolbars but the Menu Bar is displayed only when the
"Customize Toolbars" dialog is open. This seems a but funny to me but
I dont care because I use the standard menu on top of the screen.

Maybe my problem has been solved by resizing the toolbars, lets see
what happens next. My feeling is that there *is* a hard to detect
bug.
The problem of disappearing icons also happens in Excel and
Powerpoint.

Thanks, Robert

Robert

.

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