Vanishing Toolbars in Word, Excel or Works. Click View on the top row menu and then click Toolbars, make sure the Toolbars you want to see are ticked. If a required Toolbar is not ticked, click that Toolbar to create the tick. The Toolbars you need most are labelled Format and Edit. You may also wish to tick the Drawing Toolbar.
Vanished Toolbar and menu: If the menu has also vanished you are unable to click View to restore the tool bars. You probably accessed Full screen mode accidentally, then closed the program.Try these steps:
(i) Open Word, then press the Esc key.
(ii) Hold down Alt and tap the V key. This might pull up the View menu. Then tap the U key to close the full screen mode and close Word. Click View then Toolbars and follow the instructions in the previous paragraph
(iii) If none of these steps have restored the menu and toolbar, then more drastic treatment is necessary. The registry has been corrupted and must be repaired. Do not attempt to do this unless you are confident about editing the registry. If you are worried about tampering with the registry, ask a technician to follow these instructions:-
(a) Close Word, ensure that any minimised Word documents on the Taskbar are closed.
(b) Click Start then click Run and type regedit and press Enter. The registry editor will appear.
(c) On the left hand pane click the plus sign next to the following folders: HKEY_CURRENT_USER then Software then Microsoft then Office then you will see a numbered folder in the list of folders, it will be 9.0 for Word 2000, Word 2002 will be 10.0, Word 2003 will be number 11.0.
(d) Open the numbered folder which matches your version of Word. Inside that folder, find a folder named Data and click it once (don't open it).
(e) Click File then click Export.
(f) In the next dialog box, name the file regdata and choose to save the file to the Desktop so that you can
easily find it later.
(g) Still in the registry editor, RIGHT click on the Data folder, on the pop-up menu choose Delete.
Close the registry editor and open Word to see if the menu and Toolbars have re-appeared.
(h) If they have re-appeared, be sure to delete the regdata file which you saved to the Desktop.
(i) If they did not re-appear, close Word and double click the regdat file on the Desktop. This will put you back to the sad situation of having no Tool bars or menu. You will probably have to uninstall Word then reinstall it.
Your recent web address list has vanished when you click the down-arrow to the right of the address field. These addresses are known as MRUs (Most Recent Used). Your anti-spyware has spotted these during a scan and flagged them as non-critical items. If you asked the anti-spyware to remove them they will vanish from your Address field. To stop them vanishing, next time you scan for spies, do not opt to remove non-critical items such as MRUs.
Send/Receive button has vanished from your toolbar? Buttons will disappear from the Toolbar if you shrink the width of the Outlook Express window pane; this reduces the amount of room available for buttons. To widen the window, rest the cursor on the right or left hand edge of the Outlook Express window frame, when the double headed arrow appears, hold down the left mouse button and drag the edge sideways so that the window becomes wider. Release the mouse button when your missing buttons re-appear. Then click File-->Exit (for once, don't click the usual red/white cross).
Email photo resizing dialog box vanished?
The pop-up resizer dialog box fails to show up when you want to compress a
photo for emailing. This can happen for one of two reasons:-
(1) Most frequently this is due to loading a new photo editing
program that has changed the file association for photos. To correct this,
click Start-->Run then type regsvr shimgvw.dll and click OK.
Note the single space after regsvr. To make the change effective you must
then Restart the computer, Start-->Turn off computer-->Restart.
(2) The vital Windows file sendmail.dll may have been
corrupted due to a power cut or due to switching off the computer
incorrectly. To repair the file, double click My Computer on the
Desktop (or single click it in the Start menu). Then double click
the main hard disk (usually Local disk C:). Double click the Windows
folder. Scroll down and double click the System32 folder. For
safety's sake you should now put the corrupt file in a safe place; create a
new folder called Old files. Click File in the top menu bar
and click New then Folder. Type the new folder name and press
Enter. Drag and drop the corrupt sendmail.dll file into the
Old File folder.
Windows will replace the missing file and you should now see there sizing dialog box when you want to send a photo by email.
An opening screen vanishes: If double clicking an icon on the Desktop gives you a glimpse of the opening screen but it does not launch the program, look at the bottom of the screen, you will see that your missing program is minimised as an oblong button on the Taskbar. Left click that button to restore it to the desktop. To avoid this problem, whenever you minimise a program, be sure to click it and close it before shutting down your computer.
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