Value within the Data key – if your menus and toolbars are corrupt but your Key itself, you can delete either “Settings ” \\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Word\DataĪ clean key will automatically be created when you restart Word. \\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Word\Data \\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\8.0\Word\Data To fix the problem, you need to close Word and delete one of the following
If using /a doesn't fix the problem, or if you are using Wordĩ7, you will need to delete and recreate the corrupt registry value(s), asįollows: Deleting and recreating the corrupt registry values Values for this self-repair procedure to be triggered so mild corruption would Toolbar settings have to be completely out of the range of Such problemsĪppear to be strictly limited to bad settings in the Toolbars value, and the This utility then automatically rebuilds the corrupt values. You probably won't.) When using the /a switch in Word 2000 and higher,Ĭertain problems with the Data key in the registry trigger a repair utility, and
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(You may need to specify the full path although Start button in the bottom left of your screen, selecting Run, and In Word 2000 and above, you can sometimes fix this simply by clicking the Using the /a switch (Word 2000 and above only) You've accidentally removed from a menu or toolbar (that's covered in theĪ command to a menu).
#MS WORD TOOLBAR MISSING HOW TO#
Select the one you hid, in the list that appears) or how to restore a button Have accidentally hidden (but the answer is to right-click on any toolbar and Note that this article does not cover how to bring back a toolbar you Word opening very slowly see also Problems There are some that play around with your computer in quite nasty ways, andĭamaging Word's settings is often the least of their activities.Īll the above symptoms indicate a corrupt Registry key (although in the case of They may not actually stop your computer working, but they can certainly slow itĭown! We generally advise avoiding all except the best-known ones. Such additions are often slight modifications of well-known virus programs. Many Internet "helper" add-ins make some quite nasty changes to your computer,Īnd often the only "helping" they do is 'helping themselves to every web address Will tell you how to get your missing menus back. "improvement" or "haxie" or "explorer bar" or the like that you download.īut sometimes, it just "happens", and we have no idea why. User error and sometimes it's some toxic "internet helper" or add-in, or Missing menus hasn't been fixed for several versions now, and that'sīecause nobody can discover quite how it happens. Regrettably, the missing menus problem is a hardy perennial in Word, Options look wonky (they're either blank or the text is shifted down and to Settings (or my recently-used files list) when I quit and go back in. My menus and toolbars are missing and won't come backīuilt-in dialogs are permanently greyed out, when they shouldn't be