Toolbars-problem

[Maja_Hendrickx]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

Hi,

I've got a problem with my toolbars.
When I open a document it looks like this:
/Users/maja/Desktop/Picture 1.png
Then I must click on view like this:
/Users/maja/Desktop/Picture 2.png
I Put the mark off by standard and then I put it back on and my document looks like:
/Users/maja/Desktop/Picture 4.png
When I click on >> then I get my normal view:
/Users/maja/Desktop/Picture 5.png
How come this works not like it did before?

Maja

 

[Maja_Hendrickx]

How can I put my pictures in a post?
Maja

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Maja:

You can't...

The fault is the dreaded "Blue Jelly Bean". If you look in the extreme top
right corner of the application window, you will see an oblong button that
glows blue when you hover over it.

Its function is to hide the toolbars... Click it until they come back.
It's an application setting: Word will start each time with the setting you
last clicked.

Very confusing...

Cheers

How can I put my pictures in a post?
Maja

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[CyberTaz]

You can't post any attachments to newsgroup messages... attachments simply
aren't supported.

From what I can decipher of your description it sounds like you need to
click the oblong button at the right end of the document Title Bar to
"unhide" your Docked toolbars. This is an unidentified & poorly documented
"feature" of OS X.

It also sounds like your Docked toolbars contain more than the width of your
document window can display. Widen the window enough to allow the bar to
fully expand & the >> will go away.

 

[Maja_Hendrickx]

Thanks,
it worked!
Maja

 

[Uncle_Fink]

The Blue Jelly Bean of Death hit me hard.

By accident I hit the button and I haven't been able to bring the Toolbar back in Excel.
In Word it comes back with no problem. But in Excel it vanished and just wouldn't come back.
I've repeatedly reloaded Office several times with no effect. Everything I've tried didn't work.

What next?

 

[John McGhie]

Never re-install on a Mac It just makes things worse.

Almost everything that goes wrong on a Mac is damage to your Preferences,
which do not exist on the CD, so are never touched by a reinstall. So the
best you could hope for is that reinstalling will do "nothing".

It's only Windows that needs constant reinstallations of things to make it
work

Te first thing I would try is to change your screen resolution (if you can).
Or use Expose to show all windows. Chances are the toolbars are appearing,
but they're off the screen.

If that doesn't find it, do this:

1) Delete User/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2008 (the whole folder!)

2) Then Repair Permissions with Disk Utility.

3) Then reboot.

Should be fixed now. If not, come back and we'll talk you through the rest
of it.

Cheers

The Blue Jelly Bean of Death hit me hard.

By accident I hit the button and I haven't been able to bring the Toolbar back
in Excel.
In Word it comes back with no problem. But in Excel it vanished and just
wouldn't come back.
I've repeatedly reloaded Office several times with no effect. Everything I've
tried didn't work.

What next?

--

This email is my business email -- Please do not email me about forum
matters unless you intend to pay!

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP (Word, Mac Word), Consultant Technical Writer,
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. | Ph: +61 (0)4 1209 1410
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]

 

[CyberTaz]

Please don't be offended, but once again you have replied to another user's
thread. In this case, the suggestions that had been offered to that user
worked for him/her. If they didn't work for you your issue must be different
in some way even if the symptoms 'appear' to be similar.

Additionally, you've still neglected to indicate your version & update
levels of Office & OS X. The odds are that the problem can be resolved
easily without the radical surgery John suggested, but your version
information is needed in order to point you in the right direction.

If you'd post a New message by clicking the link near the top of the left
panel to "ask a new question" rather than repeatedly clicking the "Reply to
this message" links & supply the requested information we'd be better able
to focus on your specific problem. We're here to help you but you have to
help us before we can do so

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac