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I can't insert a table from Table menu
Under the Table menu, when I select Insert the drop down menu options do not
appear and there is no way for me to insert a table into my document. Any help? I've closed and reopened Word already. |
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I can't insert a table from Table menu
First attempt:
- Open the Tools Customize dialog. - Right-click the Table menu and select Reset from the popup menu. - Close the Customize dialog. - Test the menu. Second attempt, if the first doesn't work: - Close Word. - In "My Computer", choose Tools Folder Options View. - Click the "Show hidden files and folders" option. - Close the dialog. - Go to the folder C:\Documents and Settings\your name\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates. - Rename the file Normal.dot to OldNormal.dot. - Start Word. - Test the menu. - If you had customizations (styles, AutoText entries, customized toolbars, or macros) stored in the OldNormal.dot template, use the Organizer (in Tools Templates & Add-Ins) to copy them to Normal.dot. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 07:34:02 -0700, Rachel wrote: Under the Table menu, when I select Insert the drop down menu options do not appear and there is no way for me to insert a table into my document. Any help? I've closed and reopened Word already. |
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I can't insert a table from Table menu
I can see the Tables menu but when I select Insert the menu that should
appear next to the arrow symbol does not appear, therefore, I can't insert a Table. If I open Word and then open the document up under the File menu, it does work. However, if I open up the file directly (not via the Word program) the menu still fails to appear. Any other advice? "Jay Freedman" wrote: First attempt: - Open the Tools Customize dialog. - Right-click the Table menu and select Reset from the popup menu. - Close the Customize dialog. - Test the menu. Second attempt, if the first doesn't work: - Close Word. - In "My Computer", choose Tools Folder Options View. - Click the "Show hidden files and folders" option. - Close the dialog. - Go to the folder C:\Documents and Settings\your name\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates. - Rename the file Normal.dot to OldNormal.dot. - Start Word. - Test the menu. - If you had customizations (styles, AutoText entries, customized toolbars, or macros) stored in the OldNormal.dot template, use the Organizer (in Tools Templates & Add-Ins) to copy them to Normal.dot. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 07:34:02 -0700, Rachel wrote: Under the Table menu, when I select Insert the drop down menu options do not appear and there is no way for me to insert a table into my document. Any help? I've closed and reopened Word already. |
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I can't insert a table from Table menu
The fact that it works when opening a document from inside Word but
not when using My Computer (I assume that's what you mean by "directly") suggests a problem in the mechanism that transfers the document's information from the icon to Word. Try opening Start Run and typing this line, then clicking OK: winword.exe /r (notice the space between the exe and the slash). You won't see any action, but Word will rewrite its registry entries and then quit. Then try opening a document from an icon. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:03:01 -0700, Rachel wrote: I can see the Tables menu but when I select Insert the menu that should appear next to the arrow symbol does not appear, therefore, I can't insert a Table. If I open Word and then open the document up under the File menu, it does work. However, if I open up the file directly (not via the Word program) the menu still fails to appear. Any other advice? "Jay Freedman" wrote: First attempt: - Open the Tools Customize dialog. - Right-click the Table menu and select Reset from the popup menu. - Close the Customize dialog. - Test the menu. Second attempt, if the first doesn't work: - Close Word. - In "My Computer", choose Tools Folder Options View. - Click the "Show hidden files and folders" option. - Close the dialog. - Go to the folder C:\Documents and Settings\your name\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates. - Rename the file Normal.dot to OldNormal.dot. - Start Word. - Test the menu. - If you had customizations (styles, AutoText entries, customized toolbars, or macros) stored in the OldNormal.dot template, use the Organizer (in Tools Templates & Add-Ins) to copy them to Normal.dot. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 07:34:02 -0700, Rachel wrote: Under the Table menu, when I select Insert the drop down menu options do not appear and there is no way for me to insert a table into my document. Any help? I've closed and reopened Word already. |
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I can't insert a table from Table menu
No luck. The items under the Table menu cannot be selected for any word
files that were not created on my computer. FYI, I have Word 2003 (11.6568.6568). The other files were most likely created in an older version. Is there a way to update these files to my version when I open them? "Jay Freedman" wrote: The fact that it works when opening a document from inside Word but not when using My Computer (I assume that's what you mean by "directly") suggests a problem in the mechanism that transfers the document's information from the icon to Word. Try opening Start Run and typing this line, then clicking OK: winword.exe /r (notice the space between the exe and the slash). You won't see any action, but Word will rewrite its registry entries and then quit. Then try opening a document from an icon. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:03:01 -0700, Rachel wrote: I can see the Tables menu but when I select Insert the menu that should appear next to the arrow symbol does not appear, therefore, I can't insert a Table. If I open Word and then open the document up under the File menu, it does work. However, if I open up the file directly (not via the Word program) the menu still fails to appear. Any other advice? "Jay Freedman" wrote: First attempt: - Open the Tools Customize dialog. - Right-click the Table menu and select Reset from the popup menu. - Close the Customize dialog. - Test the menu. Second attempt, if the first doesn't work: - Close Word. - In "My Computer", choose Tools Folder Options View. - Click the "Show hidden files and folders" option. - Close the dialog. - Go to the folder C:\Documents and Settings\your name\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates. - Rename the file Normal.dot to OldNormal.dot. - Start Word. - Test the menu. - If you had customizations (styles, AutoText entries, customized toolbars, or macros) stored in the OldNormal.dot template, use the Organizer (in Tools Templates & Add-Ins) to copy them to Normal.dot. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 07:34:02 -0700, Rachel wrote: Under the Table menu, when I select Insert the drop down menu options do not appear and there is no way for me to insert a table into my document. Any help? I've closed and reopened Word already. |
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I can't insert a table from Table menu
The file formats for Word 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003 are all the same;
there isn't any "upgrading" to do. I've never heard of a *document* that could change what appeared in Word's menus. Possibly it could happen if the "documents" were really *templates* containing menu customizations. That's pretty far-fetched, though. I'm now officially out of ideas. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 09:41:02 -0700, Rachel wrote: No luck. The items under the Table menu cannot be selected for any word files that were not created on my computer. FYI, I have Word 2003 (11.6568.6568). The other files were most likely created in an older version. Is there a way to update these files to my version when I open them? "Jay Freedman" wrote: The fact that it works when opening a document from inside Word but not when using My Computer (I assume that's what you mean by "directly") suggests a problem in the mechanism that transfers the document's information from the icon to Word. Try opening Start Run and typing this line, then clicking OK: winword.exe /r (notice the space between the exe and the slash). You won't see any action, but Word will rewrite its registry entries and then quit. Then try opening a document from an icon. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:03:01 -0700, Rachel wrote: I can see the Tables menu but when I select Insert the menu that should appear next to the arrow symbol does not appear, therefore, I can't insert a Table. If I open Word and then open the document up under the File menu, it does work. However, if I open up the file directly (not via the Word program) the menu still fails to appear. Any other advice? "Jay Freedman" wrote: First attempt: - Open the Tools Customize dialog. - Right-click the Table menu and select Reset from the popup menu. - Close the Customize dialog. - Test the menu. Second attempt, if the first doesn't work: - Close Word. - In "My Computer", choose Tools Folder Options View. - Click the "Show hidden files and folders" option. - Close the dialog. - Go to the folder C:\Documents and Settings\your name\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates. - Rename the file Normal.dot to OldNormal.dot. - Start Word. - Test the menu. - If you had customizations (styles, AutoText entries, customized toolbars, or macros) stored in the OldNormal.dot template, use the Organizer (in Tools Templates & Add-Ins) to copy them to Normal.dot. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 07:34:02 -0700, Rachel wrote: Under the Table menu, when I select Insert the drop down menu options do not appear and there is no way for me to insert a table into my document. Any help? I've closed and reopened Word already. |
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I can't insert a table from Table menu
Hi,
We have this problem also. I was wondering if the Adobe Acrobat 7 and an electronic document record management software called Objective is installed in your PC. "Rachel" wrote: No luck. The items under the Table menu cannot be selected for any word files that were not created on my computer. FYI, I have Word 2003 (11.6568.6568). The other files were most likely created in an older version. Is there a way to update these files to my version when I open them? "Jay Freedman" wrote: The fact that it works when opening a document from inside Word but not when using My Computer (I assume that's what you mean by "directly") suggests a problem in the mechanism that transfers the document's information from the icon to Word. Try opening Start Run and typing this line, then clicking OK: winword.exe /r (notice the space between the exe and the slash). You won't see any action, but Word will rewrite its registry entries and then quit. Then try opening a document from an icon. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:03:01 -0700, Rachel wrote: I can see the Tables menu but when I select Insert the menu that should appear next to the arrow symbol does not appear, therefore, I can't insert a Table. If I open Word and then open the document up under the File menu, it does work. However, if I open up the file directly (not via the Word program) the menu still fails to appear. Any other advice? "Jay Freedman" wrote: First attempt: - Open the Tools Customize dialog. - Right-click the Table menu and select Reset from the popup menu. - Close the Customize dialog. - Test the menu. Second attempt, if the first doesn't work: - Close Word. - In "My Computer", choose Tools Folder Options View. - Click the "Show hidden files and folders" option. - Close the dialog. - Go to the folder C:\Documents and Settings\your name\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates. - Rename the file Normal.dot to OldNormal.dot. - Start Word. - Test the menu. - If you had customizations (styles, AutoText entries, customized toolbars, or macros) stored in the OldNormal.dot template, use the Organizer (in Tools Templates & Add-Ins) to copy them to Normal.dot. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 07:34:02 -0700, Rachel wrote: Under the Table menu, when I select Insert the drop down menu options do not appear and there is no way for me to insert a table into my document. Any help? I've closed and reopened Word already. |
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