Auto Hide Menu bar in Office XP??

[Ash57]

I have a user that somehow turned on an option to "Auto hide" her menu bars (the File, Edit, View) in her MS Word, in the Office XP suite.

Its similar to when you set the task bar to auto hide. You move the mouse close to the edge of your office document and the menu bar jumps back up.

Is there a setting to change this back to being static..??

Thanks.

 

[luceze]

Interesting. I haven't heard of that one before. Did you try renaming or deleting the normal.dot file on that computer?

Eric

 

[coakerb]

There is NO way to auto hide the whole menu bar in XP office....I might be barking up the wrong tree but I think you are referring to Auto slide.

Open Word and on the Tool bar click TOOLS/CUSTOMIZE/OPTIONS and uncheck the box that says"Show full menus after a short delay" that way when click on on Edit etc they open instantly.....if not what you mean can`t help sorry!

 

[Marcs41]

The only way there is to use the Autohide is when you are in Full Screen mode.
Switch her back to 'normal' and all will be ok.

If it is not the Full Screen thing, then she may have turned off the Standard Toolbar, although in that case, it will never show.

So, I'll go for option 1 for now.

If you want to choose menu commands to stay in full-screen mode, rest the pointer at the top of the screen, and the menu bar appears. For example, you might want to set options on the View tab (Tools menu, Options command) to specify which screen elements to display in full-screen mode.

To turn off full-screen mode and switch to the previous view, click Close Full Screen on the Full Screen toolbar, or press ESC.



Marc
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