MS Office Shortcut Bar

[Patrick Saylor]

My MS Office Shortcut Bar appears to be corrupted. It has
identical icons (rather than distinct ones for each
program). The program identity for each icon pops up when
the cursor is placed over it. But the icons do not show
you the program symbol.

This setup is Win98 SE, with Office 2000 Premium -- and
latter has SP-1 and other service packages that were
downloaded from Microsoft updates.

Tried reinstalling Office 2000 Premium from CD (no luck
with that procedure on restoring OSB icons), and tried
coping MSOFFICE.EXE from CD to overwrite the version on
the hard drive (in the appropriate 1003 subdirectory) but
that did not work, even after trying to convert a
copied "read only" version to "archive" version, before
moving it to subdirectory.

Problem with OSB arose after activating Registry Tracker
in Norton SystemWorks 2003 and accepting a request to fix
something (obviously a mistake) ... could not figure out a
way to find the problem in Registry Tracker and restore
old settings (to reverse course from corrupted file to
original).

Anyone who can help? How can I solve this problem? Would
be most grateful to learn of a simple way to overwrite the
corrupted file and (if need be, correct the affected
registries) to get back to normal.

If this means uninstalling Office 2000 Premium, can I do
that without losing the downloaded service packages (which
consumed a lot of time to download)?

Can write me directly at:
<potomacsailor(removethisdingdong)yahoo.com>
or via this community website -- assuming I can find my
way back.

Patrick Saylor

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

If you right click in an open area of the OSB and select Refresh, does this
work?

If not, then create a new toolbar, call it RealOffice or some distinct name,
and use the add file option to navigate to your Office Shortcut Bar folder
and add back in the Office shortcuts.


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to the
Swen virus, all e-mails sent to my actual account will be deleted w/out
reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
Patrick Saylor <[email protected]> asked:

| My MS Office Shortcut Bar appears to be corrupted. It has
| identical icons (rather than distinct ones for each
| program). The program identity for each icon pops up when
| the cursor is placed over it. But the icons do not show
| you the program symbol.
|
| This setup is Win98 SE, with Office 2000 Premium -- and
| latter has SP-1 and other service packages that were
| downloaded from Microsoft updates.
|
| Tried reinstalling Office 2000 Premium from CD (no luck
| with that procedure on restoring OSB icons), and tried
| coping MSOFFICE.EXE from CD to overwrite the version on
| the hard drive (in the appropriate 1003 subdirectory) but
| that did not work, even after trying to convert a
| copied "read only" version to "archive" version, before
| moving it to subdirectory.
|
| Problem with OSB arose after activating Registry Tracker
| in Norton SystemWorks 2003 and accepting a request to fix
| something (obviously a mistake) ... could not figure out a
| way to find the problem in Registry Tracker and restore
| old settings (to reverse course from corrupted file to
| original).
|
| Anyone who can help? How can I solve this problem? Would
| be most grateful to learn of a simple way to overwrite the
| corrupted file and (if need be, correct the affected
| registries) to get back to normal.
|
| If this means uninstalling Office 2000 Premium, can I do
| that without losing the downloaded service packages (which
| consumed a lot of time to download)?
|
| Can write me directly at:
| <potomacsailor(removethisdingdong)yahoo.com>
| or via this community website -- assuming I can find my
| way back.
|
| Patrick Saylor

 

[Guest]

Milly -- your suggestion of right-click on open area of
bar and choice of refresh did indeed work, wonder why I
didn't try that ... I was trying to go through the left
click on the main OSB icon to use customize feature to see
if there was any reset. Thanks ever so much for the
pointer. Patrick Saylor