Recently the weirdest thing has been happening to me: When I create a new Office 2000 Shortcut bar it appears, it lets itself be modified etc, but on reboot it's no longer to be found on my screen, nor is it mentioned in the Customize dialog box under "toolbars". (By the way, the toolbars I formerly created ARE there on reboot, it's just the new ones that ain't...) It's still to be found staring at me in Windows/application data/Microsoft/office/shortcut bars however, with all the buttons in it. After I delete this bar in Application Data, or in the registry (two mentions of it in HKU/software and HKCU/software), when I try to install a new bar with the same name it says (and I'm translating roughly from the original Dutch...): "Unable to create shortcut bar..., because a bar with the same name was recently removed. Would you like to replace the former bar?" I click "OK", the bar appears, but on reboot it's gone again. Meanwhile my "Application Data" folder is filling up with lots of shortcut bars with all kinds of names, that apparently can never be used again. Reinstalling Office is no solution. Creating a shortcut from the particular toolbar to the startup folder doesn't work either. The guys at Microsoft Support Holland hadn't heard of this problem before, and all they could do was advise me to uninstall office yet again, then run the 2 Office Eraser programs from Microsoft to remove every trace from the registry, and then reinstall it. Haven't tried this as yet as I'm holding on to the precious few bars that DO still work. Hope you might have an idea