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Help with type a question box.
I've just looked at the Word Help topic "Show or hide the Type a question
for help box." It says: 1. On the Tools menu, click Customize. 2. On the menu bar, right-click the Type a question for help box. 3. Select or deselect Show Ask A Question Box to show or hide it. Note If you are hiding the Type a question for help box, it will still display until after you close the Customize dialog box. What this means is that you must have the Customize dialog open, but you're not actually clicking anything *in* the Customize dialog. You're right-clicking the "Type a question for help" box itself. You get a menu with a single item: "Show Ask a Question Box." It has a check mark beside it. Presumably if you click on it, you will remove the box, but, having already read the replies posted here by other MVPs, I'm loath to experiment with it, since there doesn't seem to be any easy way to get it back. I take it that you can't just right-click on the menu bar to get this option? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "spysmily1" wrote in message ... I can't seem to get any help on removing this box from either excel, word, or outlook. I have read other post that just recite the same stuff about right clicking and unchecking the show the box. I don't have this box and never have had it. I have many others. I have tried the suggestion that I had googled for in which the MVP said to go to Customize then in the Toolbar tab select Menu Bar and then click properties. The problem there is that I have no properties to click. All I have is reset or keyboard on the bottom. To the right I have New, Rename, Delete and Reset, but no properties at all. I am using Office 2003 |
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Help with type a question box.
Hi Shauna,
For the 'how to get it back' through the UI see my reply to Suzanne. For the registry setting that stores the choice it's the one for each app that mentions "AWDropdownHidden" in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\C ommon\Toolbars\Settings It's part of the Answer Wizard (AW) customization area. =========== "Shauna Kelly" wrote in message ... Hi Graham OK, so I turned off the box. How do I get it back? It seems that the setting is not in normal.dot or in the Data or Toolbars registry entries. Shauna Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. -- I hope this helped you, Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office system products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends LINKS to the 2007 Office System 1. Free MS Office 2007 book from MS Press, 213 pages: http://microsoft.com/learning/office...oksfrommspress 2.. Office 2007 Beta 2 Online Test Drive, Downloadable beta, e-learning courses, doucmentation and movies: http://microsoft.com/office/preview 3. Send 2007 Office System Beta 2 feedback directly to the MS Office 2007 product team with this feedback tool: http://sas.office.microsoft.com/ 4. Try the 2007 OfficeOnline preview website , without Office2007 a. Install the ActiveX access control http://office.microsoft.com/search/r...XT101650581033 b. then visit http://officebeta.iponet.net |
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Help with type a question box.
Thanks Graham,
seems to be a good day for learning. -- Greetings from Bavaria, Germany Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA Win XP, Office 2003 "red.sys" & Chr$(64) & "t-online.de" |
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Help with type a question box.
Bob, I'm not seeing any reply from you to my post and I would like to know
how to get it back through the UI (if there is such a way). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Bob Buckland ?:-)" 75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote in message ... Hi Shauna, For the 'how to get it back' through the UI see my reply to Suzanne. For the registry setting that stores the choice it's the one for each app that mentions "AWDropdownHidden" in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\C ommon\Toolbars\Settings It's part of the Answer Wizard (AW) customization area. =========== "Shauna Kelly" wrote in message ... Hi Graham OK, so I turned off the box. How do I get it back? It seems that the setting is not in normal.dot or in the Data or Toolbars registry entries. Shauna Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. -- I hope this helped you, Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office system products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends LINKS to the 2007 Office System 1. Free MS Office 2007 book from MS Press, 213 pages: http://microsoft.com/learning/office...oksfrommspress 2.. Office 2007 Beta 2 Online Test Drive, Downloadable beta, e-learning courses, doucmentation and movies: http://microsoft.com/office/preview 3. Send 2007 Office System Beta 2 feedback directly to the MS Office 2007 product team with this feedback tool: http://sas.office.microsoft.com/ 4. Try the 2007 OfficeOnline preview website , without Office2007 a. Install the ActiveX access control http://office.microsoft.com/search/r...XT101650581033 b. then visit http://officebeta.iponet.net |
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Help with type a question box.
Hi Suzanne,
once you know it, it seems so simple. Starting from a menubar not showing a "type a question for help"-box. Right click in the menubar customize "type a question for help"-box appears right click in "type a question for help"-box left click in the grey box preceding the "type a question for help"-box nothing happens close There seem to be quite a lot of possible variations. By the way, I hate constructions like "type a question for help"-box. The more so as it is called "Ask A question"-box in the help. Once again, "help" all to often is no help at all. Calling Jezebel an a**hole? Well, I think I blame MS more for the irritations than the OP. I was confused, too, though more moderate, and suggested silly workarounds. -- Greetings from Bavaria, Germany Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA Win XP, Office 2003 "red.sys" & Chr$(64) & "t-online.de" |
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Help with type a question box.
Hi Suzanne,
Not to worry While the 'ask a question' box is an Office wide feature, you can use the same technique in Word, Excel and Powerpoint to turn it off individually in each app. If you have right clicked on the 'Ask a Question' box and then left clicked the 'Show...' choice that appears, while Word's Tools=Customize dialog is open when you close the Tools=Customize dialog then the 'question' box will not be visible. If you the reopen the Tools=Customize dialog the 'question box' will be visible when the dialog is opened and you can right click it and again select 'Show...' the dialog box should stay visible when closing the Tools=Customize dialog. It is possible that this is another area where add-ins could cause interference, but the settings are saved in the registry. =============== "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I've just looked at the Word Help topic "Show or hide the Type a question for help box." It says: 1. On the Tools menu, click Customize. 2. On the menu bar, right-click the Type a question for help box. 3. Select or deselect Show Ask A Question Box to show or hide it. Note If you are hiding the Type a question for help box, it will still display until after you close the Customize dialog box. What this means is that you must have the Customize dialog open, but you're not actually clicking anything *in* the Customize dialog. You're right-clicking the "Type a question for help" box itself. You get a menu with a single item: "Show Ask a Question Box." It has a check mark beside it. Presumably if you click on it, you will remove the box, but, having already read the replies posted here by other MVPs, I'm loath to experiment with it, since there doesn't seem to be any easy way to get it back. I take it that you can't just right-click on the menu bar to get this option? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "spysmily1" wrote in message ... I can't seem to get any help on removing this box from either excel, word, or outlook. I have read other post that just recite the same stuff about right clicking and unchecking the show the box. I don't have this box and never have had it. I have many others. I have tried the suggestion that I had googled for in which the MVP said to go to Customize then in the Toolbar tab select Menu Bar and then click properties. The problem there is that I have no properties to click. All I have is reset or keyboard on the bottom. To the right I have New, Rename, Delete and Reset, but no properties at all. I am using Office 2003 |
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Help with type a question box.
Hey Bob,
The problem I'm facing is that I have no option when rightclicking the box to show or hide the only options I get when right clicking anywhere is to turn off all the other stuff like formatting, standard, autotext, etc. I am starting from a fresh and updated from Microsoft install without any other addins, addons, etc. Btw, I don't have any of those entries in my registries. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\C ommon\Toolbars\Settings Settings is the last folder and it only has one entry. Thx for reply though "Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote: Hi Suzanne, Not to worry While the 'ask a question' box is an Office wide feature, you can use the same technique in Word, Excel and Powerpoint to turn it off individually in each app. If you have right clicked on the 'Ask a Question' box and then left clicked the 'Show...' choice that appears, while Word's Tools=Customize dialog is open when you close the Tools=Customize dialog then the 'question' box will not be visible. If you the reopen the Tools=Customize dialog the 'question box' will be visible when the dialog is opened and you can right click it and again select 'Show...' the dialog box should stay visible when closing the Tools=Customize dialog. It is possible that this is another area where add-ins could cause interference, but the settings are saved in the registry. =============== "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I've just looked at the Word Help topic "Show or hide the Type a question for help box." It says: 1. On the Tools menu, click Customize. 2. On the menu bar, right-click the Type a question for help box. 3. Select or deselect Show Ask A Question Box to show or hide it. Note If you are hiding the Type a question for help box, it will still display until after you close the Customize dialog box. What this means is that you must have the Customize dialog open, but you're not actually clicking anything *in* the Customize dialog. You're right-clicking the "Type a question for help" box itself. You get a menu with a single item: "Show Ask a Question Box." It has a check mark beside it. Presumably if you click on it, you will remove the box, but, having already read the replies posted here by other MVPs, I'm loath to experiment with it, since there doesn't seem to be any easy way to get it back. I take it that you can't just right-click on the menu bar to get this option? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "spysmily1" wrote in message ... I can't seem to get any help on removing this box from either excel, word, or outlook. I have read other post that just recite the same stuff about right clicking and unchecking the show the box. I don't have this box and never have had it. I have many others. I have tried the suggestion that I had googled for in which the MVP said to go to Customize then in the Toolbar tab select Menu Bar and then click properties. The problem there is that I have no properties to click. All I have is reset or keyboard on the bottom. To the right I have New, Rename, Delete and Reset, but no properties at all. I am using Office 2003 |
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Help with type a question box.
Thx again for replying Helmut but once again, I have no option to show or
hide that box. The only box I have checked right now is the Menu Bar box. That is what I was told to uncheck earlier which that would be a bad idea anyways. I can't even uncheck that box if I tried though. It's like it's not even allowed. Appreciate the reply though And it's not so much of me calling him an a**hole as it is him starting out by being childish and calling me stupid. He started it------JK! "Helmut Weber" wrote: Hi Suzanne, once you know it, it seems so simple. Starting from a menubar not showing a "type a question for help"-box. Right click in the menubar customize "type a question for help"-box appears right click in "type a question for help"-box left click in the grey box preceding the "type a question for help"-box nothing happens close There seem to be quite a lot of possible variations. By the way, I hate constructions like "type a question for help"-box. The more so as it is called "Ask A question"-box in the help. Once again, "help" all to often is no help at all. Calling Jezebel an a**hole? Well, I think I blame MS more for the irritations than the OP. I was confused, too, though more moderate, and suggested silly workarounds. -- Greetings from Bavaria, Germany Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA Win XP, Office 2003 "red.sys" & Chr$(64) & "t-online.de" |
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Hi spysmily1,
And it's not so much of me calling him an a**hole as it is him starting out by being childish and calling me stupid. He started it------JK! ok, Jezebel did. That's just the way he is. With all the help he has provided here before, it is generously granted. As to that da*ned f*ing box: I have no problem to show it and hide it, manually. With the box the Tools, customize, right click in the box, uncheck, close. Box has gone, here and now. With no box the sub dam*d Tools, customize, f*ing box appears, right click the box, uncheck the preceding grey square nothing happens close end dam*d box is still there repeat dam*d box has gone and hopefully will have vanished forever. Otherwise, I don't know. Have a nice day, nevertheless. If nothing works, let it rest for a while. After 20 or maybe more years of struggling with Word and later Office, my advice is, take a time out. -- Greetings from Bavaria, Germany Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA Win XP, Office 2003 "red.sys" & Chr$(64) & "t-online.de" |
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Help with type a question box.
da*ned f*ing box,
driving everybody up the walls: There is a "not" missing occasionally. I need a time out, too. Helmut |
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