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MacOS Sierra: Customize the Finder toolbar and sidebar. But the original item is still on your Mac. You can’t remove items from the Shared section. The File Edit View History Bookmarks Tools Help Menu bar in Firefox is hidden by default. It's also missing when Firefox is in full screen mode or if the file storing your toolbar information has become corrupt.
A reader wrote in to ask: 'I was just at a client where we downloaded QB for Mac 2014 onto their new computer. When we ran reports, there was no ribbon at the top of the report window with options to filter, change header/footer, etc. I came back to my office and opened QB for Mac 2014 on my own MacBook, and the ribbon was there, with all the options. Any idea what could be causing this?'
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Actually it was the Mac Report Toolbar that was missing from the report, and it really wasn't missing at all it was simply hidden. Of course when you need the toolbar you don't really care if it is missing or just hidden, if you can't find it, you just need it. The toolbar provides controls to customize (Options, Filters, Format, and Header/Footer), print, memorize, and export the report.
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If you find the toolbar hidden you can display 'un-hide' it by following the appropriate steps based upon your particular version of the Mac Operating System.
OS X 10.8 and newer
- Hold the Ctrl key down while clicking on a blank area of the title bar, not the actual report title, then
- Check or Uncheck the option to Hide Toolbar
OS X 10.7
- Hold the Ctrl key down while mouse clicking on a blank area of the title bar, not the acutal report title, then
- Choose Show Toolbar.
OS X 10.6 and older
In the upper right corner of the title bar, click on the eliptical 'pill button'
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Depending upon your specific Mac OS, the appropriate solution above should resolve your problem with a 'missing' Report Toolbar.
Editor's Note:
Intuitive Accountant wants to thank both Sandy Bibace and Wayne Steelman, both ProAdvisor members of the National Advisor Network, for giving us the idea for this article.
-->Symptoms
While using Word for Mac one or more Toolbars are missing and cannot be added.
Cause
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This behavior can be caused by one of these things:
- The oval button in the upper-right corner of the document was clicked. This button 'toggles' display of toolbars on and off.
- There is an issue with the Normal template in Word.
- The toolbars or menus are modified.
Resolution
To resolve this problem, try the following methods.
Method 1: Make sure that tool bar display is not turned off
- In the upper-right corner of the window click the oval button.NoteWhen this button is clicked, it hides all the toolbars. A second click causes the toolbars to be displayed.
- If the toolbars reappear, quit, and then restart Word to make sure that the appropriate toolbars are displayed.
If Method 1 did not resolve the problem, try Method 2.
Method 2: Reset the toolbars and menus in Word
You can reset the toolbars and menus in the Customize Toolbars and Menus option, any saved customization is removed, and all settings are reverted to the original default settings.
- Open Word.
- Go to View in the menu.
- Choose Toolbars.
- Select Customize Toolbars and Menus.
- Select Toolbars and Menus in the top of the Customize Toolbars and Menus window.
- Select the item in the list you want to reset (Menu Bar, Standard, Formatting).
- Click Reset.
- Click OK when getting prompt: 'Are you sure you want to reset the changes made...'
- Click OK.
Note
When View is missing from the menu, then you can also Control Click the Standard Toolbar and go to Customize Toolbars and Menus here.
If Method 2 did not resolve the problem, try Method 3.
Method 3: Create a new Normal template Note
When a new Normal template is created, any saved customization is removed, and all settings are reverted to the original default settings.
Step 1: Quit all programs
To quit active applications, follow these steps:
- On the Apple menu, click Force Quit.
- Select an application in the 'Force Quit Applications' window.
- Click Force Quit.
- Repeat the previous steps until you quit all active applications.
Warning
When an application is force quit, any unsaved changes to open documents are not saved.
When you are finished, click the red button in the upper-left corner and proceed to Step 2.
Step 2: Word 2008 and 2011: Move the Normal.dotm template file to the Trash
- Quit all Microsoft Office applications.
- On the Go menu, click Home.
- Open Library. NoteThe Library folder is hidden in MAC OS X Lion. To display this folder, hold down the OPTION key while you click the Go menu.
- Select the Application Support folder.
- Select the Microsoft folder.
- Open the Office folder.
- Open the User Templates folder.
- Move Normal.dotm to the Trash.
- Start Word, a new Normal.dotm template will be created when you choose Quit Word in the Word menu.
Note
When you had Word 2004 on your Mac previously and you now have Word 2008 or Word 2011, also check if the Word 2004 Normal file is present on the system, if so, trash this Normal template file as well.
Step 3: Word 2004: Move the Normal template file to the Trash
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- Quit all Microsoft Office applications.
- On the Go menu, click Home.
- Select the Documents folder.
- Select the **Microsoft User Data **folder.
- Move Normal to the Trash.
- Start Word, a new Normal template will be created when you choose Quit Word in the Word menu.
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