MS WOrd Status Bar

[Ms.K]

I am teaching a class in MS Word XP. The status bar is
needed to type the sample letters appropriately but on
just a few of my PCs the status bar is dimmed. I went to
Tools-Options to select the status bar to view but it was
already selected. Any ideas on why the status bar is
still dimmed and thus unusable?

[Thorsten Matzner]

"Ms.K" > wrote:

>I am teaching a class in MS Word XP. The status bar is
>needed to type the sample letters appropriately but on
>just a few of my PCs the status bar is dimmed. I went to
>Tools-Options to select the status bar to view but it was
>already selected. Any ideas on why the status bar is
>still dimmed and thus unusable?

If you cannot get further help here you may want to post this to
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.word.newusers

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[Perdita X. Dream]

Ms.K wrote:
> I am teaching a class in MS Word XP. The status bar is
> needed to type the sample letters appropriately but on
> just a few of my PCs the status bar is dimmed. I went to
> Tools-Options to select the status bar to view but it was
> already selected. Any ideas on why the status bar is
> still dimmed and thus unusable?

1) There is no such thing as Word XP - that is the name given to the Office
suite that contains the individual applications with the version suffix
2002.

2) This is a WINDOWS XP group - why are you posting here? Wouldn't your
question be better addressed to an Office or, better still, a Word group?


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[Hermes]

Perdita X. Dream, while listening to the voices in their head blather
on endlessly about inspecific gibberish, typed:

|| Ms.K wrote:
||| I am teaching a class in MS Word XP. The status bar is
||| needed to type the sample letters appropriately but on
||| just a few of my PCs the status bar is dimmed. I went to
||| Tools-Options to select the status bar to view but it was
||| already selected. Any ideas on why the status bar is
||| still dimmed and thus unusable?
||
|| 1) There is no such thing as Word XP - that is the name given to the
|| Office suite that contains the individual applications with the
|| version suffix 2002.
||
|| 2) This is a WINDOWS XP group - why are you posting here?
|| Wouldn't your question be better addressed to an Office or, better
|| still, a Word group?
||
||
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|| Perdita X. Dream
||
|| Please help us to help you
|| http://groups.google.com
|| http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
|| http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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|| Keep all posts to the groups as private requests for assistance
|| (i.e. email/IM) cannot be acknowledged. Thank you.

Office XP is the name of the M$ office suite product, so why can't the Word
application in it be referred to as Word XP?

[Perdita X. Dream]

Hermes wrote:
> Perdita X. Dream, while listening to the voices in their head blather
> on endlessly about inspecific gibberish, typed:
>
>>> Ms.K wrote:
>>>> I am teaching a class in MS Word XP. The status bar is
>>>> needed to type the sample letters appropriately but on
>>>> just a few of my PCs the status bar is dimmed. I went to
>>>> Tools-Options to select the status bar to view but it was
>>>> already selected. Any ideas on why the status bar is
>>>> still dimmed and thus unusable?
>>>
>>> 1) There is no such thing as Word XP - that is the name given to the
>>> Office suite that contains the individual applications with the
>>> version suffix 2002.
>>>
>>> 2) This is a WINDOWS XP group - why are you posting here?
>>> Wouldn't your question be better addressed to an Office or, better
>>> still, a Word group?
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Perdita X. Dream
>>>
>>> Please help us to help you
>>> http://groups.google.com
>>> http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>>> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>>> Please note that the reply address is fake.
>>> Keep all posts to the groups as private requests for assistance
>>> (i.e. email/IM) cannot be acknowledged. Thank you.
>
> Office XP is the name of the M$ office suite product, so why can't
> the Word application in it be referred to as Word XP?

Because that's wrong - that's the name for the suite only - the individual
products should be referred to by the year.

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[Carl F]

Perdita X. Dream wrote:

> Hermes wrote:
>
>>Perdita X. Dream, while listening to the voices in their head blather
>>on endlessly about inspecific gibberish, typed:
>>
>>
>>>>Ms.K wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I am teaching a class in MS Word XP. The status bar is
>>>>>needed to type the sample letters appropriately but on
>>>>>just a few of my PCs the status bar is dimmed. I went to
>>>>>Tools-Options to select the status bar to view but it was
>>>>>already selected. Any ideas on why the status bar is
>>>>>still dimmed and thus unusable?
>>>>
>>>>1) There is no such thing as Word XP - that is the name given to the
>>>>Office suite that contains the individual applications with the
>>>>version suffix 2002.
>>>>
>>>>2) This is a WINDOWS XP group - why are you posting here?
>>>>Wouldn't your question be better addressed to an Office or, better
>>>>still, a Word group?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>Perdita X. Dream
>>>>
>>>>Please help us to help you
>>>>http://groups.google.com
>>>>http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>>>>http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>>>>Please note that the reply address is fake.
>>>>Keep all posts to the groups as private requests for assistance
>>>>(i.e. email/IM) cannot be acknowledged. Thank you.
>>
>>Office XP is the name of the M$ office suite product, so why can't
>>the Word application in it be referred to as Word XP?
>
>
> Because that's wrong - that's the name for the suite only - the individual
> products should be referred to by the year.
>
> --
> Perdita X. Dream
>
> Please help us to help you
> http://groups.google.com
> http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
> Please note that the reply address is fake.
> Keep all posts to the groups as private requests for assistance
> (i.e. email/IM) cannot be acknowledged. Thank you.
>
>
>
>
Let's solve real problems and allow others to be corporately correct.

[Brian Tillman]

>Because that's wrong - that's the name for the suite only - the individual
>products should be referred to by the year.

Only for Office XP, not for Office Suites in general. Office 97 contained
Word 6, I believe. Office 2003 contains Word 2003. Microsoft loves to
screw with naming.
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