There is a way to turn on the menu and toolbar, but it sounds like your
normal.dot template was corrupted. Go to your templates and rename
normal.dot to something like normal.bak and start Word again. Word will
create a new, clean copy of normal.dot and you should be back in business.
The only problem with doing it this way is that you lose all of your toolbar
customizations.

Peter
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> -----Original Message-----
> I have Windows 98 and MSWord 2000. Somehow I have lost the 
> toolbar at the top of all my MSWord documents. They were 
> literally there one day & the next day when I turned on my 
> computer they were gone! There is no 'file', 'edit' 'view' 
> ...nothing except the blue bar at the top that allows me to 
> minimize, restore, or close and I do have the rulers at the 
> top and side. I am able to open & work with a new or existing 
> document, but only as far as my keyboard knowledge goes. When 
> I right-click on the 'W' = MSWord icon in the top left corner 
> all I can do is close, minimize or restore. I have tried to 
> 'repair' and have even tried to uninstall and reinstall and 
> still have no toolbars. What did I do and how do I get them 
> back? Thank youfor yout help! Mary Rosseau

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