I followed your directions (very clear - thanks!): I navigated to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Wo rd\Data, renamed Toolbars
to OldToolbars!, hit Enter, restarted the computer, opened Word, found that
the Standard and Formatting Toolbars now showed up on one line, hit Ctrl-C
twice, and there -- in front of God, me, and everyone! -- Word displayed the
Clipboard toolbar _docked_, as usual! I dragged it so it would float, closed
Word, re-opened Word, and it was again docked.

You're good to offer some help, which I immensely appreciate. If you have
any other ideas, I'll gladly try them.

"Tony Jollans" wrote:

Take care in the Registry. If you're unsure about anything, don't do it.

Renaming keys and values, rather than deleting them, is non-destructive, and
allows you to rename them back afterwards. I usually add a ! character to
the end of the name - that way it stays in alphabetic order but is obvious
to see. That is, though, just a suggestion and you can do as you wish.

Navigate, using the left hand panel, to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Wo rd\Data

In the right hand panel there should be 3 values: Default, Settings, and
Toolbars. Select Toolbars and rename it (right click and select Rename, or
press F2, Edit the name, and press Enter to commit)

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Enjoy,
Tony

www.WordArticles.com

"Owl1" wrote in message
...
Tony - Thanks very much for posting some suggestions. I'd really like to
solve this. The problem probably doesn't sound important to most people,
but
I'm a professional writer and use this feature a lot.

Word is definitely *not* remembering that the Clipboard toolbar was
floating
when Word closes. I've tried many times to impress this on its memory, but
no
luck!

None of the other Word toolbars has any problems. I'm not in a corporate
environment and am the only user of this computer.

Could you tell me how to check to see if the data key is corrupted, or how
to force Word to create a new one? I'm not experienced *at all* with
regedit!

Many thanks for your help!