Mac Forum / Applications / Excel / January 2008

I've been using Excel for decades and have installed Office 2008 using OSX 10.4.11 on a MacBook Pro.

I have been using Excel 2008 for 2 days and opened a sheet that I'd been working on in Excel 2008 and found that the Standard toolbar was missing (the one with New, file, save icons etc). I checked "View", "Toolbars" and "Standard" was already ticked. I tried unticking and reticking but to no avail.

I then checked "View"; "Customize Toolbars and Menus" and found that "Standard" was ticked BUT it also had a tick against "Dock" which was greyed out and couldn't be unticked. I tried resetting the Standard Toolbar but that didn't work. I tried closing and opening Excel plus rebooting my Mac but again nothing helped.

The only thing I can think of that may have remotely affected this is that I ran Disk Utility to check/ repair permissions prior to using Excel today and it did repair some library permissions but I don't know why this would affect just one toolbar in excel?

I couldn't find any mention in Help about undocking toolbars. Can anyone please help with this frustrating issue.

Many thanks

Bob