cant see drawing toolbar

Hi

I've recently got a new computer and this problem is driving me nuts.
When I click view!toolbars!drawing, nothing happens. No drawing toolbar appears at the bottom of the screen where it used to be. There's a small "drawing toolbar" icon on the main toolbar, but whether this is depressed or not makes no difference either.

I understand this may be changed in the 2007 version, but I’m using Excel 2000

It’s probably a really simple solution, but neither the help screens nor a quick google gave any solution.

Try this, on the end of the Standard Toolbar is a drop down arrow (next to the ?) . Click, Add or Remove option > Standard > Rest Toolbar.

Does that help?

Hi
Thanks for the tip - I tried it, but I'm afraid it didn't work

If you go to View > Toolbars has the Drawing Toolbar got a tick next to it?

yes - I've toggled this on an off using view!toolbars, by clicking the icon that's part of the standard toolbar, and with the 'reset toolbar' command on the down arrow at the end of the standard toobar as you suggested. None of this seems to work, even with the drawing toolbar ticked.

OK, let try something else. Go to Tools > Customise > Options, Rest menu and toolbar usage data.

Also have you got the active window on max?

Sorry tried that:
Tools > Customise > Options

while I was at it I also tried
Tools > Customise > toolbars > reset
which didn't work either

Have a look at this link, there may be a few options you haven't tried yet?

http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/toolbars.htm

Let me know how you get on?

Thank you very much for your help
Its nearly 6pm here in Western Australia and I'm off to a lecture now, but will check out the site in the morning when I return to work, and let you know how I go in a few hours.
Thanks again

Hi

The website gave me the clue to how to solve it.

With Excel closed, I found my Excel.xlb file and moved it to another directory (just in case ...). Then I open Excel, reset the toolbars as I like (including Drawing, which appeared properly when selected), then closed Excel, which automatically created a new Excel.xlb file that now loads my settings as a I like whenever I open Excel.

I guess I'd done something to my stored toolbar settings in Excel.xlb that I coudn't work out how to reverse, but starting from scratch is very easy, so this worked fine.

Thanks again for your help

Great, glad to hear you resolved it - thanks for the feedback