Hi, I went to use Microsoft Word 2000 this afternoon and when it opened up all the menu's and toolbars have disappeared. The whole lot - all the buttons with pictures AND the bar with File, Edit, View, Help, etc. All I have is the bar at the very top of the screen "Document 1 - Microsoft Word" Then the top ruler And then the blank page for the new document. I don't know what has caused this as I am the only user of this computer. I have also not made any changes at all to anything on the system. Not even installed it. Yesterday it was fine. Today it isn't. I've tried replacing the normal.dot file - no luck. I've also uninstalled and re-installed but that made no difference either. Anyone got any other ideas ? Thanks

At the top of the MS Word screen click on View, then toolbars. Whichever items have a check mark next to them are what will display in the toolbar for MS Word.

Thanks for the post Zoomie Mike. That's my problem. I know I can recover the other toolbars from there. But I don't even have the File, View, Edit, etc. menu there. so it's currently impossible for me to go to View Toolbars. Thanks all the same. S

Stephen, Go to this link: http://www.personal-computer-tutor.com/wordtoolbars.htm I had the same problem - 3 times!!! Finally solved it with this. Easy to follow and worked first time. Good luck. Matt

Try running winword /a