Does anyone use Word a lot?

[Maljonic]

I am this guys house that I go and see for my job, helping him with computer stuff. Anyway, he's somehow got the menu at the top of Word to display 'File' twice and I can't figure out how to get rid of one of them.

I'm sure this should go somewhere else but I'm only here for two hours and thought I might get a quicker response in here.

 

[kanonfodda]

to reset the menu to default settings:

close word
do a search on his PC for normal.dot
delete it
load word again
should have a normal menu bar at the top then.

 

[Guest]

customize the toolbar to make sure that there arn't 2 FILE's in there, and/or reset the toolbar.


start word with asome switches
eg winword.exe /a

/a Starts Word and prevents add-ins and global templates (including the Normal template) from being loaded automatically.

The /a switch also locks the setting files; that is, the setting files cannot be read or modified if you use this switch.
/laddinpath Starts Word and then loads a specific Word add-in.
/m Starts a new instance of Word without running any AutoExec macros.
/mmacroname Starts Word and then runs a specific macro. The /m switch also prevents Word from running any AutoExec macros.
/n Starts a new instance of Word with no document open. Documents opened in each instance of Word will not appear as choices in the Window menu of other instances.
/ttemplatename Starts Word with a new document based on a template other than the Normal template.
/w Starts a new instance of Word with a blank document. Documents opened in each instance of Word will not appear as choices in the Window menu of the other instances.
(no switch) A new Word window is opened with a blank document using the existing instance of the Word program.

 

[Lazarus]

Tools --> Customise --> Commands.

Remove one of the "files" from the left hand box.

 

[Maljonic]

Can't find normal.dot with a search, no results.

I already tried Tools --> Customise --> Commands - theres only one occurrance of files in there and no option to remove it anyway.

I could try what Brooky says but sounds a bit complicated.

Edit: I did try Brooky's way , which gets rid of the two files, but don't see how to fix it for normal use.

 

[kanonfodda]

assuming windows XP:

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates\normal.dot

for some reason, I can't find it either with a file search :S

 

[Maljonic]

It is XP, there's no folder called application data though in there?

 

[Draylor]

Uninstall word.

Use something that doesnt suck, or at the very least sucks less.

 

[Ocalinn]

It is XP, there's no folder called application data though in there?

its usually a hidden folder, have to change the settings to see it

 

[Maljonic]

We can see all the other folders in there, just not that one; it doesn't really matter that much, everything still works, just bugs him that there's two 'files' on the menu.

 

[Guest]

Can't find normal.dot with a search, no results.

I already tried Tools --> Customise --> Commands - theres only one occurrance of files in there and no option to remove it anyway.

I could try what Brooky says but sounds a bit complicated.

Edit: I did try Brooky's way , which gets rid of the two files, but don't see how to fix it for normal use.

change the shortcut to for word so that it has the switch at the end of it, after the quotation marks eg "c:\program files\microsoft iffice\office 10\winword.exe" /a

 

[SheepCow]

Uninstall word.

Use something that doesnt suck, or at the very least sucks less.

Does a program like that exist? And don't pretend Open Office sucks less than MS Office

 

[Maljonic]

Think I'll probably just reinstall it when I go again tomorrow; that's how I usually fix a lot of stuff for him anyway, he's always botching stuff up and deleting important operating files - he can't speak and his memory is a bit poor so he can never tell me what he did to cause problems in the first place, so I just have to guess most of the time.

Anyway I don't see why Word sucks, I've been using it for years and it just seems like a normal word processing program to me, never had any problems with it myself.

 

[Maljonic]

assuming windows XP:

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates\normal.dot

for some reason, I can't find it either with a file search :S

Just did this now btw, after changing file view options, and it's fixed, so cheers.


Better change those options back now....