Excel 2003 toolbar problem 2

[Ngolem]

Hi...this is probably simple but it is driving me nuts.

I accidently clicked on the e-mail button on a very complex spreadsheet.

The dialog box for sending an e-mail pops up below the normal toolbars and on-top of the spreadsheet asking for typical email stuff To, cc and subject as well as icons for attachements, address book, SEND THIS EMAIL.

But I don't want to send an e-mail or desire to set up mail computer to do this directly from EXCEL.

I cannot figure out how to abort this e-mail attempt and get rid of this form. How is it done????

This workbook has about 20 pages and if I have to I will copy each page to a new workbook as my backup is a month out of date but this should not be necessary....how do I get rid of this @#$!!@ dialog toolbar.

signed frustrated user

Jim Broadbent

 

[petrosky]

Hi Jim,

It just did my head in for about 10 minutes.

Finally I sent my test file to myself...and was rewarded with the "normal" view of my test file. I could not see any way to back out of the operation.

Please take care if you don't have a back up of your file though...

HTH.

Peter.

Remember- It's nice to be important,
but it's important to be nice

 

[Ngolem]

ridiculous isn't it!!! you should be able to abort this operation

Jim Broadbent

 

[cmeagan656]

To cancel it in Excel 2003 all you have to do is click on the e-mail button again. It's the same idea as turning bold, italics, etc. on and off.

Cheers.

 

[Ngolem]

Thanks cmeagan656...you have saved the rest of my hair.

that was not intuitive as evidenced by the other reply and in frustration I deleted the offending icon from the toolbar and didn't remember what it looked like

such things should not happen to you at 1:00am...everything is fine now...Thanks again

Jim Broadbent

 

[cmeagan656]

You're right, its not intuitive and searching help didn't produce an answer, at least not using the search terms that I was using (I thought they were the right ones).

I only noticed it because when I was testing it I noticed that the button got an outline around it and changed colour slightly so I guessed that it worked like the formatting buttons. I tried it and it worked.

Thanks for the little purple thingy!

Cheers.

 

[petrosky]

It's good to learn something every day!

Thanks cmeagan656.

Peter.

Remember- It's nice to be important,
but it's important to be nice

 

[cmeagan656]

petrosky:

You're welcome.

Cheers.