Style box added on 2007 QAT shows nothing

We were confounded by MS's decision to remove the Style box from the
default interface in 2007, but were able to add it to the QAT using the
Customize dialog.

Just recently it seems to have lost its innards. When you click its
drop-down arrow you get a long dropdown list as before, but it's *empty*
except for one entry showing the style at the cursor.

Nghghh?? Any ideas why this happens? Happens in every doc. Typing a
style's name or alias in the box applies it, as it should. But that
only works if you've memorized them! Tried removing & re-adding the
Style box to the QAT, no change.

Help??

MT

FWIW, I have seen this as well. As far as I know, there is no fix or
workaround available. :-(

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Mark Tangard" wrote in
message ...
We were confounded by MS's decision to remove the Style box from the
default interface in 2007, but were able to add it to the QAT using the
Customize dialog.

Just recently it seems to have lost its innards. When you click its
drop-down arrow you get a long dropdown list as before, but it's *empty*
except for one entry showing the style at the cursor.

Nghghh?? Any ideas why this happens? Happens in every doc. Typing a
style's name or alias in the box applies it, as it should. But that only
works if you've memorized them! Tried removing & re-adding the Style box
to the QAT, no change.

Help??

MT

Well, that's pretty upsetting.

I can't imagine all the style-using folks I used to know here in pre-2007 days
have just shrugged this off. Is there a new recommended way to manage text
formatting in 2007 that I don't know about? Is our only option to downgrade
this machine back to 2003? It's not very usable this way.

Just realized I didn't try a Detect/Repair; will do that & post back.

Mark


Stefan Blom wrote:

FWIW, I have seen this as well. As far as I know, there is no fix or
workaround available. :-(

-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Mark Tangard"
wrote in message
...

We were confounded by MS's decision to remove the Style box from the
default interface in 2007, but were able to add it to the QAT using the
Customize dialog.

Just recently it seems to have lost its innards. When you click its
drop-down arrow you get a long dropdown list as before, but it's *empty*
except for one entry showing the style at the cursor.

Nghghh?? Any ideas why this happens? Happens in every doc. Typing a
style's name or alias in the box applies it, as it should. But that only
works if you've memorized them! Tried removing & re-adding the Style box
to the QAT, no change.

Help??

MT

Fortunately I have not seen that particular problem, but does
CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+S work? If so you can add that dialog to the QAT it is called
Styles ... From that dialog you can set the display options.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Mark Tangard wrote:
Well, that's pretty upsetting.

I can't imagine all the style-using folks I used to know here in
pre-2007 days have just shrugged this off. Is there a new
recommended way to manage text formatting in 2007 that I don't know
about? Is our only option to downgrade this machine back to 2003? It's
not very usable this way.
Just realized I didn't try a Detect/Repair; will do that & post back.

Mark


Stefan Blom wrote:

FWIW, I have seen this as well. As far as I know, there is no fix or
workaround available. :-(

-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Mark Tangard"
wrote in message
...

We were confounded by MS's decision to remove the Style box from the
default interface in 2007, but were able to add it to the QAT using
the Customize dialog.

Just recently it seems to have lost its innards. When you click its
drop-down arrow you get a long dropdown list as before, but it's
*empty* except for one entry showing the style at the cursor.

Nghghh?? Any ideas why this happens? Happens in every doc. Typing a
style's name or alias in the box applies it, as it should.
But that only works if you've memorized them! Tried removing &
re-adding the Style box to the QAT, no change.

Help??

MT

There is a discussion in the private newsgroup about this issue, but it has
been a while, so I don't know if it is still accessible. I posted the
initial question in that thread, as soon as I noticed the issue (since then
I have seen it on another Word installation as well).

Someone else confirmed the behavior, but I don't remember who it was. Beth
Melton? Cindy Meister?

As far as I can remember, no one was able to describe the circumstances that
caused the problem, and a few suggested workarounds such as creating a new
user profile didn't help.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Fortunately I have not seen that particular problem, but does
CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+S work? If so you can add that dialog to the QAT it is
called Styles ... From that dialog you can set the display options.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Mark Tangard wrote:
Well, that's pretty upsetting.

I can't imagine all the style-using folks I used to know here in
pre-2007 days have just shrugged this off. Is there a new
recommended way to manage text formatting in 2007 that I don't know
about? Is our only option to downgrade this machine back to 2003? It's
not very usable this way.
Just realized I didn't try a Detect/Repair; will do that & post back.

Mark


Stefan Blom wrote:

FWIW, I have seen this as well. As far as I know, there is no fix or
workaround available. :-(

-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Mark Tangard"
wrote in message
...

We were confounded by MS's decision to remove the Style box from the
default interface in 2007, but were able to add it to the QAT using
the Customize dialog.

Just recently it seems to have lost its innards. When you click its
drop-down arrow you get a long dropdown list as before, but it's
*empty* except for one entry showing the style at the cursor.

Nghghh?? Any ideas why this happens? Happens in every doc. Typing a
style's name or alias in the box applies it, as it should.
But that only works if you've memorized them! Tried removing &
re-adding the Style box to the QAT, no change.

Help??

MT

I saw this problem once... and deleting Normal.dotm (and letting Word create
a new one) fixed it.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
...
There is a discussion in the private newsgroup about this issue, but it
has
been a while, so I don't know if it is still accessible. I posted the
initial question in that thread, as soon as I noticed the issue (since
then
I have seen it on another Word installation as well).

Someone else confirmed the behavior, but I don't remember who it was. Beth
Melton? Cindy Meister?

As far as I can remember, no one was able to describe the circumstances
that caused the problem, and a few suggested workarounds such as creating
a new user profile didn't help.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Fortunately I have not seen that particular problem, but does
CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+S work? If so you can add that dialog to the QAT it is
called Styles ... From that dialog you can set the display options.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Mark Tangard wrote:
Well, that's pretty upsetting.

I can't imagine all the style-using folks I used to know here in
pre-2007 days have just shrugged this off. Is there a new
recommended way to manage text formatting in 2007 that I don't know
about? Is our only option to downgrade this machine back to 2003? It's
not very usable this way.
Just realized I didn't try a Detect/Repair; will do that & post back.

Mark


Stefan Blom wrote:

FWIW, I have seen this as well. As far as I know, there is no fix or
workaround available. :-(

-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Mark Tangard"
wrote in message
...

We were confounded by MS's decision to remove the Style box from the
default interface in 2007, but were able to add it to the QAT using
the Customize dialog.

Just recently it seems to have lost its innards. When you click its
drop-down arrow you get a long dropdown list as before, but it's
*empty* except for one entry showing the style at the cursor.

Nghghh?? Any ideas why this happens? Happens in every doc. Typing a
style's name or alias in the box applies it, as it should.
But that only works if you've memorized them! Tried removing &
re-adding the Style box to the QAT, no change.

Help??

MT

Hi people. Graham's suggestion worked. Actually you don't even need the ALT,
which of course now reminds me that the pre-2007 shortcut to get to the Style
box was always CTRL+SHIFT+S, so obviously I should've tried that first, duh.
I'll try Herb's also (should've thought of that too) if it happens again --
awkward though, since there's code in some of my users' Normal templates. The
floating Apply Style window that comes up with CTRL+SHIFT+S actually seems
slightly more legible than the one you get when you add 'Style' to the QAT
(illusion?), so we may stick with that.

(On a tangent there, as a group my team is pretty ticked off at how it seems
impossible to adjust the font size of ribbon items throughout Office 2007, to
make them more legible to folks who aren't 20. Anybody else climbing the walls
over that? I & many of my crew already wear eyeglasses...)

Thanks all,
MT


Herb Tyson [MVP] wrote:
I saw this problem once... and deleting Normal.dotm (and letting Word
create a new one) fixed it.


--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
...

There is a discussion in the private newsgroup about this issue, but it has
been a while, so I don't know if it is still accessible. I posted the
initial question in that thread, as soon as I noticed the issue (since then
I have seen it on another Word installation as well).

Someone else confirmed the behavior, but I don't remember who it was. Beth
Melton? Cindy Meister?

As far as I can remember, no one was able to describe the circumstances that
caused the problem, and a few suggested workarounds such as creating a new user
profile didn't help.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...

Fortunately I have not seen that particular problem, but does
CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+S work? If so you can add that dialog to the QAT it is
called Styles ... From that dialog you can set the display options.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Mark Tangard wrote:

Well, that's pretty upsetting.

I can't imagine all the style-using folks I used to know here in
pre-2007 days have just shrugged this off. Is there a new
recommended way to manage text formatting in 2007 that I don't know
about? Is our only option to downgrade this machine back to 2003? It's
not very usable this way.
Just realized I didn't try a Detect/Repair; will do that & post back.

Mark


Stefan Blom wrote:

FWIW, I have seen this as well. As far as I know, there is no fix or
workaround available. :-(

-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Mark Tangard"
wrote in message
...

We were confounded by MS's decision to remove the Style box from the
default interface in 2007, but were able to add it to the QAT using
the Customize dialog.

Just recently it seems to have lost its innards. When you click its
drop-down arrow you get a long dropdown list as before, but it's
*empty* except for one entry showing the style at the cursor.

Nghghh?? Any ideas why this happens? Happens in every doc. Typing a
style's name or alias in the box applies it, as it should.
But that only works if you've memorized them! Tried removing &
re-adding the Style box to the QAT, no change.

Help??

MT

Deleting normal.dotm did not work for me.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message
...
I saw this problem once... and deleting Normal.dotm (and letting Word
create a new one) fixed it.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
...
There is a discussion in the private newsgroup about this issue, but it
has
been a while, so I don't know if it is still accessible. I posted the
initial question in that thread, as soon as I noticed the issue (since
then
I have seen it on another Word installation as well).

Someone else confirmed the behavior, but I don't remember who it was.
Beth Melton? Cindy Meister?

As far as I can remember, no one was able to describe the circumstances
that caused the problem, and a few suggested workarounds such as creating
a new user profile didn't help.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Fortunately I have not seen that particular problem, but does
CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+S work? If so you can add that dialog to the QAT it is
called Styles ... From that dialog you can set the display options.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Mark Tangard wrote:
Well, that's pretty upsetting.

I can't imagine all the style-using folks I used to know here in
pre-2007 days have just shrugged this off. Is there a new
recommended way to manage text formatting in 2007 that I don't know
about? Is our only option to downgrade this machine back to 2003? It's
not very usable this way.
Just realized I didn't try a Detect/Repair; will do that & post back.

Mark


Stefan Blom wrote:

FWIW, I have seen this as well. As far as I know, there is no fix or
workaround available. :-(

-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Mark Tangard"
wrote in message
...

We were confounded by MS's decision to remove the Style box from the
default interface in 2007, but were able to add it to the QAT using
the Customize dialog.

Just recently it seems to have lost its innards. When you click its
drop-down arrow you get a long dropdown list as before, but it's
*empty* except for one entry showing the style at the cursor.

Nghghh?? Any ideas why this happens? Happens in every doc. Typing a
style's name or alias in the box applies it, as it should.
But that only works if you've memorized them! Tried removing &
re-adding the Style box to the QAT, no change.

Help??

MT

So... you have this problem at present? I assume you've been through "the
usual suspects" such as deleting the Data key or even renaming the Word
branch that contains the Data key.

What about deleting/renaming word.qat? Mine is he

C:\Users\Herb\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
...
Deleting normal.dotm did not work for me.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message
...
I saw this problem once... and deleting Normal.dotm (and letting Word
create a new one) fixed it.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
...
There is a discussion in the private newsgroup about this issue, but it
has
been a while, so I don't know if it is still accessible. I posted the
initial question in that thread, as soon as I noticed the issue (since
then
I have seen it on another Word installation as well).

Someone else confirmed the behavior, but I don't remember who it was.
Beth Melton? Cindy Meister?

As far as I can remember, no one was able to describe the circumstances
that caused the problem, and a few suggested workarounds such as
creating a new user profile didn't help.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Fortunately I have not seen that particular problem, but does
CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+S work? If so you can add that dialog to the QAT it is
called Styles ... From that dialog you can set the display options.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Mark Tangard wrote:
Well, that's pretty upsetting.

I can't imagine all the style-using folks I used to know here in
pre-2007 days have just shrugged this off. Is there a new
recommended way to manage text formatting in 2007 that I don't know
about? Is our only option to downgrade this machine back to 2003?
It's
not very usable this way.
Just realized I didn't try a Detect/Repair; will do that & post back.

Mark


Stefan Blom wrote:

FWIW, I have seen this as well. As far as I know, there is no fix or
workaround available. :-(

-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Mark Tangard"
wrote in message
...

We were confounded by MS's decision to remove the Style box from the
default interface in 2007, but were able to add it to the QAT using
the Customize dialog.

Just recently it seems to have lost its innards. When you click its
drop-down arrow you get a long dropdown list as before, but it's
*empty* except for one entry showing the style at the cursor.

Nghghh?? Any ideas why this happens? Happens in every doc. Typing
a
style's name or alias in the box applies it, as it should.
But that only works if you've memorized them! Tried removing &
re-adding the Style box to the QAT, no change.

Help??

MT

I've had it on my home computer since I first reported it in the private
newsgroup. And, no, the usual suspects were found not guilty. :-(

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message
...
So... you have this problem at present? I assume you've been through "the
usual suspects" such as deleting the Data key or even renaming the Word
branch that contains the Data key.

What about deleting/renaming word.qat? Mine is he

C:\Users\Herb\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
...
Deleting normal.dotm did not work for me.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message
...
I saw this problem once... and deleting Normal.dotm (and letting Word
create a new one) fixed it.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
...
There is a discussion in the private newsgroup about this issue, but it
has
been a while, so I don't know if it is still accessible. I posted the
initial question in that thread, as soon as I noticed the issue (since
then
I have seen it on another Word installation as well).

Someone else confirmed the behavior, but I don't remember who it was.
Beth Melton? Cindy Meister?

As far as I can remember, no one was able to describe the circumstances
that caused the problem, and a few suggested workarounds such as
creating a new user profile didn't help.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Fortunately I have not seen that particular problem, but does
CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+S work? If so you can add that dialog to the QAT it is
called Styles ... From that dialog you can set the display options.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Mark Tangard wrote:
Well, that's pretty upsetting.

I can't imagine all the style-using folks I used to know here in
pre-2007 days have just shrugged this off. Is there a new
recommended way to manage text formatting in 2007 that I don't know
about? Is our only option to downgrade this machine back to 2003?
It's
not very usable this way.
Just realized I didn't try a Detect/Repair; will do that & post back.

Mark


Stefan Blom wrote:

FWIW, I have seen this as well. As far as I know, there is no fix or
workaround available. :-(

-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Mark Tangard"
wrote in message
...

We were confounded by MS's decision to remove the Style box from
the
default interface in 2007, but were able to add it to the QAT using
the Customize dialog.

Just recently it seems to have lost its innards. When you click
its
drop-down arrow you get a long dropdown list as before, but it's
*empty* except for one entry showing the style at the cursor.

Nghghh?? Any ideas why this happens? Happens in every doc. Typing
a
style's name or alias in the box applies it, as it should.
But that only works if you've memorized them! Tried removing &
re-adding the Style box to the QAT, no change.

Help??

MT