the Every so often, I do something that changes the vertical cursor into a
thick horizontal black bar that is hard to work with. I don't know how to
change it back except to restart WORD.

This time, when it happened, I went up to format to make a change to my
font. When I clicked on font under "Format," the choice for "Font"
disappeared right from the pull-down menu and I can't restore it. Since I'm
footnoting a paper, I'm dead in the water. How do I get the choice of "Font"
under "Format" tab?

Help!
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grouper34

It sounds like you're using Ctrl+Alt+Hyphen. Using the escape key should cancel the command deletion cursor, if you click on a
command when it's live it will delete menu items.

You may want to look at the article on restoring menu commands on http://word.mvps.org

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<<"grouper34" <grouper34@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:84FB3123-C651-4D83-B834-7AACAB8A7A25@microsoft.com...
the Every so often, I do something that changes the vertical cursor into a
thick horizontal black bar that is hard to work with. I don't know how to
change it back except to restart WORD.

This time, when it happened, I went up to format to make a change to my
font. When I clicked on font under "Format," the choice for "Font"
disappeared right from the pull-down menu and I can't restore it. Since I'm
footnoting a paper, I'm dead in the water. How do I get the choice of "Font"
under "Format" tab?

Help!
--
grouper34>>
--

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Thanks, Bob. Your answer enabled me to solve both the problems I asked about.
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grouper34


"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:

> It sounds like you're using Ctrl+Alt+Hyphen. Using the escape key should cancel the command deletion cursor, if you click on a
> command when it's live it will delete menu items.
>
> You may want to look at the article on restoring menu commands on http://word.mvps.org
>
> ============
> <<"grouper34" <grouper34@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:84FB3123-C651-4D83-B834-7AACAB8A7A25@microsoft.com...
> the Every so often, I do something that changes the vertical cursor into a
> thick horizontal black bar that is hard to work with. I don't know how to
> change it back except to restart WORD.
>
> This time, when it happened, I went up to format to make a change to my
> font. When I clicked on font under "Format," the choice for "Font"
> disappeared right from the pull-down menu and I can't restore it. Since I'm
> footnoting a paper, I'm dead in the water. How do I get the choice of "Font"
> under "Format" tab?
>
> Help!
> --
> grouper34>>
> --
>
> Bob Buckland ?:-)
> MS Office System Products MVP
>
> *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
>
>
>