Forum: Wordfast support
Topic: Help! Word menu bar disappeared
Poster: Oliver Walter
Post title: Thank you - nearly!
Thank you Dominique - I may perhaps have ended that problem, but by pressing Ctrl+Alt+M more than once at a very specific time: while a segment is open for translation (e.g. as a result of Alt+Down). That doesn't show the Companion in a separate window (which was a symptom of my problem); it displays the segment from the TM above the segment in the document being translated, and then pressing again removes that display.
In my experimentation, I had to start Word once or twice in "default" mode because I found no other way of making it display the menu bar. I did this by adding
" /a"
to the end of
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\WINWORD.EXE"
in my desktop shortcut to Word, which made it start with the menu bar, toolbars and rulers (and asked me to confirm my name and initials again). Then I did an exit from Word, removed the " /a", started it again and it was back to normal (IIRC ! - I think that's what I did!)
In my case there was no shortcut in the title bar when the Companion was in a separate window. So, I may have removed the problem by using Ctrl+Alt+M, but I don't know which of my several uses was the one (perhaps more than one) that actually caused the required effect. Perhaps that key combination has a different action in WFC version 6. Perhaps I should download its manual and have a look, and perhaps even start using it. I might even consider using WFC version 6 - its online monitoring of the licence validity won't be a problem for me.
As for disabled items: my version of Word is probably so old that it doesn't have a list of disabled items; there's no reference to that in Help - About.
In any case, thanks for your effort.
[Edited at 2015-06-16 16:37 GMT]
Topic: Help! Word menu bar disappeared
Poster: Oliver Walter
Post title: Thank you - nearly!
Thank you Dominique - I may perhaps have ended that problem, but by pressing Ctrl+Alt+M more than once at a very specific time: while a segment is open for translation (e.g. as a result of Alt+Down). That doesn't show the Companion in a separate window (which was a symptom of my problem); it displays the segment from the TM above the segment in the document being translated, and then pressing again removes that display.
In my experimentation, I had to start Word once or twice in "default" mode because I found no other way of making it display the menu bar. I did this by adding
" /a"
to the end of
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\WINWORD.EXE"
in my desktop shortcut to Word, which made it start with the menu bar, toolbars and rulers (and asked me to confirm my name and initials again). Then I did an exit from Word, removed the " /a", started it again and it was back to normal (IIRC ! - I think that's what I did!)
In my case there was no shortcut in the title bar when the Companion was in a separate window. So, I may have removed the problem by using Ctrl+Alt+M, but I don't know which of my several uses was the one (perhaps more than one) that actually caused the required effect. Perhaps that key combination has a different action in WFC version 6. Perhaps I should download its manual and have a look, and perhaps even start using it. I might even consider using WFC version 6 - its online monitoring of the licence validity won't be a problem for me.
As for disabled items: my version of Word is probably so old that it doesn't have a list of disabled items; there's no reference to that in Help - About.
In any case, thanks for your effort.
[Edited at 2015-06-16 16:37 GMT]