Robert - thanks for the reply. I found the help button hidden in a pull
downlist off to the right of the command bar into which area they had been
confined by the tool bar "slider" that adjusts space in the bar- I do not
know its actual name.

I guess I have play with this command bar more. But, alt-r does not seem to
do anything other than call up the print icon list. No where in it do I find
the possibility to switch printers. Do you know can I get the printer list
displayed before I print so I can switch printers at the moment as needed?
Changing printers via the pull down list in the Menu Bar, File Print box thru
the menu bar was a no-brainer. Help does define how to do this.

Finally, I selected Adobe PDF file as the default printer in the control
panel of XP Pro trying to get IE to print a doc to pdf, and it stayed on one
of the default physical printers and wouldn't switch to "print" a pdf file.
Any ideas here?

Finally - what is GPO? No one touches these systems other than me. I am
dealing with realtors, not computer people, and I have 13 PC's that taken on
these characteristics and I do not like it. Could this have come in via an
update from Microsoft??
--
Jells
Mass


"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote:

> "Jells" <Jells@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A2E6374A-368A-4E88-A598-8F6348893B07@microsoft.com...
> > I, too, have lost the menu bar - ON 13 COMPUTERS - and it does not come back
> > via depressing the Alt key, nor right clicking anywhere in the area of the
> > command bar.
> >
> > How to get it back??? I can't even figure out what version I am running.
>
>
> If you have a command bar, you have IE7.
> So, what do you have in your command bar?
> By default the Menu bar is superfluous.
> E.g. you could have a Help button in the Command bar
> which would be equivalent to Alt-H and then get to Help, About... that way.
>
>
> > I have 13 computers in my office and all of them have lost the menu bar. I also
> > have 5 printers here as well and we switch frequently between the printers.
> > It is a total pain having to go thru chnaging the default printer each time.
>
>
> Again, the command bar Print button (Alt-r) could be used for that.
>
>
> > And off course, using the adobe option in default mode with IExplorer doesn't
> > work.
>
>
> Non sequitur? Explain?
>
>
> >
> > What happened?
>
>
> Perhaps someone customized your IE (e.g. using GPO)
> to remove a superfluous menu bar entirely? ; }
>
>
> HTH
>
> Robert
> ---
>
>
> > Jells
> > Mass
> >
> >
> > "johnaustin21" wrote:
> >
> >> I am using XP Professional. The Menu Bar has disappeared in IE7: the 'Menu
> >> Bar' is ticked in the 'Tools' menu and clicking this makes no difference (it
> >> remains ticked and the Menu Bar is still absent). How do I get the Menu Bar
> >> back? Without it IE7 is pretty useless
>
>
>