Microsoft KB Archive/65621

Same Menu Commands on More Than One Menu

PSS ID Number: Q65621 Article last modified on 03-07-1997

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= SUMMARY =

Word version 4.0 has a feature that allows each available command to be added to its respective menu. If this feature is used after a particular command has been removed from its default menu and then added to a different menu, that same command will appear on two different menus. When this happens, the same command will work properly on the different menus. However, having the same menu command on multiple menus is not a standard feature of Word and is not recommended.

If a command is located on more than one menu, Word will not always update the menus correctly when the command needs to be changed. (For example, when you add a special header or footer to the first page of your document, Word adds the Open First Footer and Open First Header commands to the Document menu, which can cause a problem if these commands are already located on another menu.) Once this problem occurs, you must create a new “Word Settings (4)” file. This will cause you to lose any customized menus, default styles, or default settings that you have created.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Word version 4.0. This problem was corrected in Word version 5.0.

= MORE INFORMATION =

In Word 5.0 commands can be placed only in their default menus, therefore, an occurrence of the same command on two different menus will not occur.

To add all the commands available in Word to a menu, do the following:

Word Version 5.0

 * 1) From the Tools menu, choose Commands.
 * 2) Choose the Reset button.
 * 3) Choose the Add All Commands To Their Default Menus option button.
 * 4) Choose the OK button.

Word version 4.0

 * 1) From the Edit menu, choose Commands.
 * 2) While holding down the OPTION key, choose the Reset button.
 * 3) Choose the OK button in the dialog box that appears.

KBCategory: kbusage buglist4.00 fixlist5.00 KBSubcategory: Additional reference words: 4.00 5.00 macword macword5 ====================================================================== ============================================================================= Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1997.