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Mac Forum / Applications / Word / November 2005Symbol Menu Has Disappeared
Hope you can help me. The "Symbol . . ." menu under "Insert" on the menu bar has disappeared from my Word 2004 app. I have exhausted my extremely small bag of tricks -- running disk utility, reinstalling, first, Word, then the entire Office 2004. Any ideas about what is corrupt and what I can do about it? FWIW, the "Symbol . . ." menu is available and useable in PowerPoint. Also, I maintain Office 2001 on my drive, too, and it's available there. Many thanks, Chris  SignatureChristopher MacLeod Concord, NH Hi Chris- Hopefully, you've gone to too much trouble already... Reinstalling software on the Mac is one of the last resorts. The first thing to try when toolbars (the menu bar is one) 'misbehave' in Word 2004 is Tools>Customize>Customize Toolbars/Menus. On the Toolbars page click the name of the offending toolbar (Menu Bar in this case), then click the Reset Button. Make sure the Save in: list in the lower left corner displays "Normal", then click OK. If that doesn't fix it, you can go back into the Customize dialog box & on the Commands page locate the missing command & drag it to the menu/toolbar where it belongs. Should there still be a problem after you've added these 'new tricks' to your bag, post back with the results of your efforts. HTH |:>) On 11/23/05 4:11 PM, in article BFAA4538.131A6%cdmacleod@comcast.net, > Hope you can help me. > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Chris Thanks for the tip -- I've saved it for later use. Poking around in microsoft.public.mac.office list, I came across someone listing about the same problem. A respondent led me to the Microsoft Office for the Mac FAQ page, and there I found another suggestion -- which worked. I simply trashed the normal template. I suspect your solution would have been less drastic. Again, thanks. On 11/23/05 4:47 PM, in article BFAA4DBD.B3B2%onlygeneraltaz1@com.cast.net, > Hi Chris- > [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] >> >> Chris Glad you were able to resolve it! The technique you used will usually do the trick, but for future reference it shouldn't be your first step. Normal.dot stores a great deal of other information which returns to default or gets deleted when you trash it and Word generates a new one when you launch the program. It is recommended that the current Normal.dot be _renamed_ (perhaps as oldnormal.dot), rather than being trashed. That way some things such as custom settings, Styles, macros,etc. Can be copied to the new Normal.dot as opposed to being trashed along with the template. Regards |:>) On 11/23/05 5:10 PM, in article BFAA52E8.13567%cdmacleod@comcast.net, > Thanks for the tip -- I've saved it for later use. > [quoted text clipped - 42 lines] >>> >>> Chris May I make a minor contribution? I know that CyberTaz works cross-platform, as I do, and because of that it's easy to miss mentioning this: On Windows the Normal template file is titled "Normal.dot". But on the Mac the ".dot" is omitted despite the fact that it's better under OS X to have suffixes on file titles, including any Word templates that one might create oneself. It's my understanding that the ".dot" should continue to be left off "Normal" -- hence, I infer, from "oldnormal" -- although I'm unaware of the explicit reasons for it. I hope this helps and if anyone wants to modify or qualify this, feel free! Cheers, Clive Huggan Canberra, Australia (My time zone is at least 5 hours different from the US and Europe, so my follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed) ============================================================ On 24/11/05 9:52 AM, in article BFAA5CF2.B41B%onlygeneraltaz1@com.cast.net, > Glad you were able to resolve it! > [quoted text clipped - 58 lines] >>>> >>>> Chris Hello Clive- Good point... I've just gotten to the stage where the word 'template' automatically triggers the .dot extn in my head! In fact (at least in 2004) if you rename as 'Normal.dot' Word ignores it and generates a new Normal. I doubt that the old file having the extn would hurt anything provided you don't keep the extn if you ever rename it to Normal again. BTW- I've left the automatic spell checker to mark the string Normal.dot as incorrect :) Regards |:>) On 11/23/05 10:09 PM, in article BFAB7A18.15F2B%REMOVETHISoffice@ANDTHISstrategists.com.au, "Clive Huggan" <REMOVETHISoffice@ANDTHISstrategists.com.au> wrote: > May I make a minor contribution? I know that CyberTaz works cross-platform, > as I do, and because of that it's easy to miss mentioning this: [quoted text clipped - 83 lines] >>>>> >>>>> Chris In line. CH === On 25/11/05 1:54 AM, in article BFAB3E57.B438%onlygeneraltaz1@com.cast.net, > Hello Clive- > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > anything provided you don't keep the extn if you ever rename it to Normal > again. I agree! (And I'd forgotten about that triggering a new Normal; "Bend Word to Your Will" is now amended; thank you.) > BTW- I've left the automatic spell checker to mark the string Normal.dot as > incorrect :) Does that mean that you have got the Exclude Dictionary to work?? Be careful before you say yes there will be heaps of interest, because currently everyone appears to have agreed it's broken in OS X. I miss it greatly from OS 9 / Word 2001 days. > Regards |:>) > [quoted text clipped - 92 lines] >>>>>> >>>>>> Chris On 11/25/05 2:19 AM, in article BFAD064C.15F97%REMOVETHISoffice@ANDTHISstrategists.com.au, "Clive Huggan" <REMOVETHISoffice@ANDTHISstrategists.com.au> wrote: > Does that mean that you have got the Exclude Dictionary to work?? Sorry to get your hopes up. Based on everything I've heard I haven't even tried. I merely meant that previously I had added Normal.dot to a Custom Dictionary but have since gone back & deleted the entry. At least that will call my attention to to it so I can determine (hopefully) whether I wanted the '.dot' to be included. Regards |:>) Thanks, CT! At least Mac BU have it on their list of things to fix. CH === On 26/11/05 2:45 AM, in article BFAC9BC7.B45A%onlygeneraltaz1@com.cast.net, > On 11/25/05 2:19 AM, in article > BFAD064C.15F97%REMOVETHISoffice@ANDTHISstrategists.com.au, "Clive Huggan" [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Regards |:>) |
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