Re: Disappearing menu items

From: Suzanne S. Barnhill (sbarnhill_at_mvps.org)
Date: 08/08/04

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    The advice Graham has given you should get you back to square one. Two ways
    to make sure you stay there:

    1. Disable adaptive menus. In Word 2000, this means clearing the check box
    for "Menus show recently used items first" on the Options tab of Tools |
    Customize.

    2. Be careful with keyboard shortcuts. An excellent way to remove a menu
    item inadvertently is to press Alt+Ctrl+Hyphen (the shortcut for
    ToolsCustomizeRemoveMenuShortcut) and then click on a menu item. For
    example, if you were trying to insert an em dash (the built-in shortcut for
    which is Alt+Ctrl+Num- [that is, the minus or hyphen key on the numeric
    keypad]) and used Alt+Ctrl+Hyphen instead, found that nothing (apparently)
    happened, and so went to Insert | Symbol to insert it, what you would have
    done was delete the Symbol entry from the Insert menu.

    Note, too, that there are ways to work around missing menu items. For
    example, you can bring up the Print dialog with Ctrl+P. You can also restore
    missing menu and toolbar commands: see
    http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/RestoreMenuCmd.htm. And if you have
    chronic problems with missing menus or toolbars, see
    http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissngMenusEtc.htm 

    -- 
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"MWR" <mwresag@periparc.com> wrote in message
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> My MS-Word 2000 (Win-XP) weirdly bugs me with standard menu items which
> mysteriously disappear. I have the print button icon in the toolbar but no
> more PRINT command under the file menu (so I cannot choose printers or set
> their properties). Same way with the SYMBOLS item under the Insert menu.
> What in Word's world is going on here? These things have the habit to
slink
> away just after I accessed them... No other installation of Word has ever
> done this to me. Does my Sony Vaio laptop come with a cheapo budget
version?
>
> MWR
>
>
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