They may not actually stop your computer working, but they can certainly slow itĭown! We generally advise avoiding all except the best-known ones. Such additions are often slight modifications of well-known virus programs. Many Internet 'helper' add-ins make some quite nasty changes to your computer,Īnd often the only 'helping' they do is 'helping themselves to every web address Will tell you how to get your missing menus back. 'improvement' or 'haxie' or 'explorer bar' or the like that you download.īut sometimes, it just 'happens', and we have no idea why. User error and sometimes it's some toxic 'internet helper' or add-in, or Missing menus hasn't been fixed for several versions now, and that'sīecause nobody can discover quite how it happens. Regrettably, the missing menus problem is a hardy perennial in Word, Options look wonky (they're either blank or the text is shifted down and to Settings (or my recently-used files list) when I quit and go back in. My menus and toolbars are missing and won't come backīuilt-in dialogs are permanently greyed out, when they shouldn't be

All other UserForm controls disabled after displaying a message box.

Toolbars not showing when automating Word.

Paragraph borders lost when printing from a VBA macro.

When users starts Word they activate a previously created instance.

Word 2000 can't be made visible, and/or doesn't trigger a Close Event.

Problem running a UserForm from an Autoexec macro.

“Undefined Variable” – Mid, Left, Right not working.

“Microsoft Forms: Could not load an object”.

“Invalid Page Fault” when running a macro.

Problems with StyleRef fields and language-specific style names.

Mail merge field names have an underscore appended to them.

Table cells with shading show white areasįloating graphics don't show up in Edit Links.

Top of the page is unaccountably indented

Cross-references show incorrect content or wrong numbersĪpplied to one paragraph affects the entire document.

Toolbar missing on add-ins tab in the Ribbon.

AutoCorrect Options missing when right-clicking.

Word shows only one or two fonts in its font list.

Frequently encountered problems with fonts.

Switching view hides the currently selected heading.

Word insists on asking “Open as read-only?”.

My drop-down menus crawl down very slowly.

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