I have lost my menu bars in Excel?

[ksj]

I am not sure if I have opened a corrupt excel file or what but now when I
open my excel there are no menu or tool bars (not hidden from view, but gone)
I have tried re-installing excel but this did not fix the problem. What is
going on?

[dominicb]

Good evening

Have you tried going to View > Toolbars and checking the ones you want...?

HTH

[Ken Wright]

View / Full Screen perhaps?

Try finding and deleting your *.xlb file which is the toolbar customisation
file

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Regards
Ken....................... Microsoft MVP - Excel
Sys Spec - Win XP Pro / XL 97/00/02/03

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"ksj" <ksj@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8834486F-CCA3-4F71-971E-C76AB43E327E@microsoft.com...
> I am not sure if I have opened a corrupt excel file or what but now when I
> open my excel there are no menu or tool bars (not hidden from view, but
gone)
> I have tried re-installing excel but this did not fix the problem. What
is
> going on?

[peterm]

have you got any grey showing at the top ? If so right click on this area and
see if it gives you a dropdown list of toolbars
Cheers
peterm

"ksj" wrote:

> I am not sure if I have opened a corrupt excel file or what but now when I
> open my excel there are no menu or tool bars (not hidden from view, but gone)
> I have tried re-installing excel but this did not fix the problem. What is
> going on?

[peterm]

Try this link http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;312589
let me know how you go
peterm

"ksj" wrote:

> I am not sure if I have opened a corrupt excel file or what but now when I
> open my excel there are no menu or tool bars (not hidden from view, but gone)
> I have tried re-installing excel but this did not fix the problem. What is
> going on?

[ksj]

I did a search for this file and could not find one. I have Office 2003 and
xp. When I log in under my husbands profile the excel menu is there. So
apparently it's somewhere in my user profile. Can I just delete my user
profile somehow and start over?

"Ken Wright" wrote:

> View / Full Screen perhaps?
>
> Try finding and deleting your *.xlb file which is the toolbar customisation
> file
>
> --
> Regards
> Ken....................... Microsoft MVP - Excel
> Sys Spec - Win XP Pro / XL 97/00/02/03
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission :-)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> "ksj" <ksj@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:8834486F-CCA3-4F71-971E-C76AB43E327E@microsoft.com...
> > I am not sure if I have opened a corrupt excel file or what but now when I
> > open my excel there are no menu or tool bars (not hidden from view, but
> gone)
> > I have tried re-installing excel but this did not fix the problem. What
> is
> > going on?
>
>
>

[Gord Dibben]

Windows Explorer>Tools>Folder Options>View>Files and Folders

Make sure Windows is set to "show hidden files".

But I'll hazard a guess that the *.xlb file is in

C:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 04:13:04 -0800, ksj <ksj@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I did a search for this file and could not find one. I have Office 2003 and
>xp. When I log in under my husbands profile the excel menu is there. So
>apparently it's somewhere in my user profile. Can I just delete my user
>profile somehow and start over?
>
>"Ken Wright" wrote:
>
>> View / Full Screen perhaps?
>>
>> Try finding and deleting your *.xlb file which is the toolbar customisation
>> file
>>
>> --
>> Regards
>> Ken....................... Microsoft MVP - Excel
>> Sys Spec - Win XP Pro / XL 97/00/02/03
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission :-)
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> "ksj" <ksj@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:8834486F-CCA3-4F71-971E-C76AB43E327E@microsoft.com...
>> > I am not sure if I have opened a corrupt excel file or what but now when I
>> > open my excel there are no menu or tool bars (not hidden from view, but
>> gone)
>> > I have tried re-installing excel but this did not fix the problem. What
>> is
>> > going on?
>>
>>
>>