Word Reviewing Toolbar Missing on Startup

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006 at 8:43 AM | Category: Meryl's Notes Blog, Tech 1 comment

The Reviewing toolbar is one of the most valuable features for writers and editors as well as for teams who create and edit documentation so they can see what changes have been made and include comments. I’ve always had it included in my default toolbars, so it appears every time I use Microsoft Word.

Lately, it hasn’t appeared every time and it was driving me insane especially since there is a gaping spot where the toolbar usually lives. I tried the usual stuff to make it stick, but darn thing kept taking off without my permission. Word simply isn’t keeping my personalized settings.

So time for Microsoft’s Knowledgebase, my first destination for Microsoft-related problems. I could do a search on the web to find the same solution elsewhere, but I prefer to start with the official source as Microsoft’s KB has helped me resolve many problems.

Word Reviewing toolbar

I found the Your toolbars are missing… entry and it resolved the problem. What worked is Step 2: Rename the Global Template, and then going back to Turn On the Default Toolbars early in the document.

If you have any customized buttons in the toolbar, it will disappear. However, when renaming the normal.dot file, make sure you give it a new name per the instructions. I called mine normal2.dot. I was able to import the macros from there into the new normal.dot.

Macros Window
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To import the macros, click Tools, Macros, Organizer, and Close File (on the left). Click Open File and select the renamed normal.dot (normal2.dot in my case) and click Copy.

Update on 08-03-2006: Danged steps didn’t work. It’s broken again. Will report a solution, if I find one.

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  • Posted by Meryl / @merylkevans on December 4th, 2006, 7:13 AM

    Thanks to the Microsoft forums and an MVP for helping me resolve this. It wasn’t an easy solution, but it works.

    Add or change the line (two of the below macros have the line already and you need to change “False” to “True”:

    CommandBars(“Reviewing”).Visible = True

    to three macros called (which you’ll need to create):

    AutoNew
    AutoOpen
    AutoExec

    in normal.dot and the reviewing bar will always be present.

    Code for creating the new macros:

    http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

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