First, you really do need to keep each Office version up tp date. Not only are there bugs fixed, but there are security issues. Just start the download and partake of you rfavorite hobby, or read, or which TV while the critter does its thing.Originally Posted by johnske
Have you read this? > http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;241652 - seems a very similar problem...
As it appears the problem was discovered in Excel, the whole thing refers to Excel in particular. But I cant see the methods for working around it in Excel differing from those for Word by very much.
It not only discusses ways to work around the problem, it also has a link to a downloadable registry repair tool to fix the problem.
Note: I started to install the fix to test to see if this also applies to Word, but as the downloadable installation was about a three-hour one I simply couldn't be bothered - I'll work around it...
In any case, as I already had the patched Office 2000, I could not reproduce the problem in the KB article in Excel 2000, so, always looking for trouble, I booted to my system with Office 97, and was able to reproduce the problem.
Excel handles CommandBars in certain ways that are very different than Word. And Word 97 does have that problem anyway.
Applying the Excel workaround to Word to see whether it avoids the delete toolbar issue I raised would be a bit more complex than the way the technique is applied in Excel.
Actually, the technique might be more appropriate to the problem in http://www.standards.com/links.html?SetReferenceInWordProject.
If only for the latter reason, I'll try to apply the technique, but not before tomorrow (hmmm, it's just about tomorrow down under, n'est-ce pas, so I mean tomorrow in USA Eastern time zone).
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