Office 2007 Word & Excel - disappearing Office menu

This is a new problem and has only existed for a few days. Office 2007
(32 bit) running on W7 Pro (32 bit).

When I click on the Office icon, the usual menu appears - file menu and
list of recent documents. BUT it then disappears after 1 or 2 seconds
before I've had time to select a recent document to open or select (say)
Save As . . in order to create a PDF file.

It could possibly be associated with a load of security updates to
Office 2007 which I installed on 2nd August, but my feeling is that it's
more recent than that.

Anyone else experienced this? Any clues about what to look for?

TIA.
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On 8/15/2017 2:27 PM, Roger Mills wrote:
This is a new problem and has only existed for a few days. Office 2007
(32 bit) running on W7 Pro (32 bit).

When I click on the Office icon, the usual menu appears - file menu and
list of recent documents. BUT it then disappears after 1 or 2 seconds
before I've had time to select a recent document to open or select (say)
Save As . . in order to create a PDF file.

It could possibly be associated with a load of security updates to
Office 2007 which I installed on 2nd August, but my feeling is that it's
more recent than that.

Anyone else experienced this? Any clues about what to look for?

TIA.
ALT key should bring it up,look in View set it to always show.

On 8/15/2017 12:27 PM, Roger Mills wrote:
This is a new problem and has only existed for a few days. Office 2007
(32 bit) running on W7 Pro (32 bit).

When I click on the Office icon, the usual menu appears - file menu and
list of recent documents. BUT it then disappears after 1 or 2 seconds
before I've had time to select a recent document to open or select (say)
Save As . . in order to create a PDF file.

It could possibly be associated with a load of security updates to
Office 2007 which I installed on 2nd August, but my feeling is that it's
more recent than that.

Anyone else experienced this? Any clues about what to look for?

TIA.


I click once on the button to view its menu, including recent documents.
I click on it again to close its menu. That works for me.

Is it possible that your PC mouse is reporting a double click when you
click only once? I had that happen because my mouse was failing. I had
to buy a new mouse to correct the problem.

--
David E. Ross
http://www.rossde.com/

After the tragedy in Charlottesville, Virginia, President Trump issued
an evasive, equivocating statement. This is quite understandable.
After all, Trump did not want to alienate his core supporters, many of
whom are white supremacists. Trump's staff tried to explain away his
statement and put a positive light on it, but they were merely putting
lipstick on a pig.

Only after pressure from his own Republican party did Trump denounce
the KKK, neo-Nazis, and white supremacists as criminals. His delay
in backtracking his prior equivocation -- too little and too late --
makes me doubt his sincerity.

On 15/08/2017 21:33, NotMe wrote:
On 8/15/2017 2:27 PM, Roger Mills wrote:
This is a new problem and has only existed for a few days. Office 2007
(32 bit) running on W7 Pro (32 bit).

When I click on the Office icon, the usual menu appears - file menu
and list of recent documents. BUT it then disappears after 1 or 2
seconds before I've had time to select a recent document to open or
select (say) Save As . . in order to create a PDF file.

It could possibly be associated with a load of security updates to
Office 2007 which I installed on 2nd August, but my feeling is that
it's more recent than that.

Anyone else experienced this? Any clues about what to look for?

TIA.
ALT key should bring it up,look in View set it to always show.

ALT/F certainly brings up the Office (file) menu, but it disappears
before I have time to select anything in it - just like when I click on
the Office button instead.

Not sure what you mean by "look in View". Do you mean 'View' in the
ribbon, or 'Display' in Word Options from the Office menu (if I can get
there in time!)? Set *what* to always display?
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On 15/08/2017 21:58, David E. Ross wrote:
On 8/15/2017 12:27 PM, Roger Mills wrote:
This is a new problem and has only existed for a few days. Office 2007
(32 bit) running on W7 Pro (32 bit).

When I click on the Office icon, the usual menu appears - file menu and
list of recent documents. BUT it then disappears after 1 or 2 seconds
before I've had time to select a recent document to open or select (say)
Save As . . in order to create a PDF file.

It could possibly be associated with a load of security updates to
Office 2007 which I installed on 2nd August, but my feeling is that it's
more recent than that.

Anyone else experienced this? Any clues about what to look for?

TIA.


I click once on the button to view its menu, including recent documents.
I click on it again to close its menu. That works for me.

Is it possible that your PC mouse is reporting a double click when you
click only once? I had that happen because my mouse was failing. I had
to buy a new mouse to correct the problem.


I did wonder about that, because I'm using a wireless mouse which can
sometimes be troublesome.

However, I've just tried a wired mouse, and it's exactly the same.
Similarly when I bring up the Office menu with ALT/F without using a
mouse at all, the same thing happens.

Any other ideas?
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Roger
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Roger Mills wrote:

This is a new problem and has only existed for a few days. Office 2007
(32 bit) running on W7 Pro (32 bit).

When I click on the Office icon, the usual menu appears - file menu and
list of recent documents. BUT it then disappears after 1 or 2 seconds
before I've had time to select a recent document to open or select (say)
Save As . . in order to create a PDF file.

It could possibly be associated with a load of security updates to
Office 2007 which I installed on 2nd August, but my feeling is that it's
more recent than that.

Anyone else experienced this? Any clues about what to look for?

TIA.

Did you disable any add-ons you installed into Office?

On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 20:27:15 +0100, Roger Mills
wrote:

This is a new problem and has only existed for a few days. Office 2007
(32 bit) running on W7 Pro (32 bit).

When I click on the Office icon, the usual menu appears - file menu and
list of recent documents. BUT it then disappears after 1 or 2 seconds
before I've had time to select a recent document to open or select (say)
Save As . . in order to create a PDF file.

It could possibly be associated with a load of security updates to
Office 2007 which I installed on 2nd August, but my feeling is that it's
more recent than that.

Anyone else experienced this? Any clues about what to look for?

I had a different issue on Office 10 a few years ago. In my case,
clicking the File menu would cause the program to crash after about 2
seconds. I downloaded a tool from Microsoft called Office Configuration
Analyzer Tool (OffCAT) and let it do its scan. It said it made changes,
but I don't remember it telling what the changes were. Anyway,
everything worked after that. Since then I've upgraded to office 2013
and then 2016, but I assume the MS tool is still around.

Google says:
https://www.google.com/search?q=offcat


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Char Jackson

In article , (Roger Mills)
wrote:

*From:* Roger Mills
*Date:* Tue, 15 Aug 2017 20:27:15 +0100

This is a new problem and has only existed for a few days. Office
2007 (32 bit) running on W7 Pro (32 bit).

When I click on the Office icon, the usual menu appears - file menu
and list of recent documents. BUT it then disappears after 1 or 2
seconds before I've had time to select a recent document to open or
select (say) Save As . . in order to create a PDF file.

It could possibly be associated with a load of security updates to
Office 2007 which I installed on 2nd August, but my feeling is that
it's more recent than that.

Anyone else experienced this? Any clues about what to look for?

TIA.

I've heard vague talk of this elsewhere. Are you by any chance using DropBox? If
so, in Dropbox go to settings preferences general set Dropbox Badge to Never
Show and see if that fixes it.
No idea why it's happening as I don't use Office myself.

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Regards
John ) Remove the obvious to reply...

On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 20:27:15 +0100, Roger Mills wrote:
This is a new problem and has only existed for a few days. Office 2007
(32 bit) running on W7 Pro (32 bit).

When I click on the Office icon, the usual menu appears - file menu and
list of recent documents. BUT it then disappears after 1 or 2 seconds
before I've had time to select a recent document to open or select (say)
Save As . . in order to create a PDF file.

Are you sure you haven't minimized the ribbon? When you do, in Excel
2007 the ribbon auto-hides itself when you come back to the document.

See if this matches what you're seeing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jni6KvYVF_Q


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http://BrownMath.com/
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
Shikata ga nai...

On 8/15/2017 5:14 PM, Stan Brown wrote:
On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 20:27:15 +0100, Roger Mills wrote:
This is a new problem and has only existed for a few days. Office 2007
(32 bit) running on W7 Pro (32 bit).

When I click on the Office icon, the usual menu appears - file menu and
list of recent documents. BUT it then disappears after 1 or 2 seconds
before I've had time to select a recent document to open or select (say)
Save As . . in order to create a PDF file.

Are you sure you haven't minimized the ribbon? When you do, in Excel
2007 the ribbon auto-hides itself when you come back to the document.

See if this matches what you're seeing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jni6KvYVF_Q



I minimized the ribbon in both Word and Excel (2007). That did not
change the way the button's menu worked. For me, the menus -- each with
a list of recent files -- remained open until I clicked again.

--
David E. Ross
http://www.rossde.com/

After the 12 August tragedy in Charlottesville, Virginia, President
Trump issued an evasive, equivocating statement. This is quite
understandable. After all, Trump did not want to alienate his
core supporters, many of whom are white supremacists. Trump's
staff tried to explain away his statement and put a positive light
on it, but they were merely putting lipstick on a pig.

Only after pressure from his own Republican party did Trump denounce
the KKK, neo-Nazis, and white supremacists as criminalson 14 August.
His delay in backtracking his prior equivocation makes me doubt his
sincerity. All doubt was erased when Trump appeared to backtrack
again, returning to his prior equivocation on Tuesday, 15 August.

In message , Roger Mills
writes:
This is a new problem and has only existed for a few days. Office 2007
(32 bit) running on W7 Pro (32 bit).

When I click on the Office icon, the usual menu appears - file menu and
list of recent documents. BUT it then disappears after 1 or 2 seconds
before I've had time to select a recent document to open or select
(say) Save As . . in order to create a PDF file.

It could possibly be associated with a load of security updates to
Office 2007 which I installed on 2nd August, but my feeling is that
it's more recent than that.

Anyone else experienced this? Any clues about what to look for?

TIA.

Is it _only_ Office? I have a vague memory of seeing a "how long things
stay open" setting somewhere in Windows - could it be that that has got
changed?
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J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. - Mahatma Gandhi
(according to the film Gandhi [1982])

Roger Mills wrote:
This is a new problem and has only existed for a few days. Office 2007
(32 bit) running on W7 Pro (32 bit).

When I click on the Office icon, the usual menu appears - file menu and
list of recent documents. BUT it then disappears after 1 or 2 seconds
before I've had time to select a recent document to open or select (say)
Save As . . in order to create a PDF file.

It could possibly be associated with a load of security updates to
Office 2007 which I installed on 2nd August, but my feeling is that it's
more recent than that.

Anyone else experienced this? Any clues about what to look for?

TIA.

If you can't find a setting that's causing it, try a Repair.
Control Panel/ Uninstall or Change/ MS Office/ Change/ Repair

Ed

On 15/08/2017 22:47, VanguardLH wrote:
Roger Mills wrote:

This is a new problem and has only existed for a few days. Office 2007
(32 bit) running on W7 Pro (32 bit).

When I click on the Office icon, the usual menu appears - file menu and
list of recent documents. BUT it then disappears after 1 or 2 seconds
before I've had time to select a recent document to open or select (say)
Save As . . in order to create a PDF file.

It could possibly be associated with a load of security updates to
Office 2007 which I installed on 2nd August, but my feeling is that it's
more recent than that.

Anyone else experienced this? Any clues about what to look for?

TIA.

Did you disable any add-ons you installed into Office?


Not knowingly!
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Cheers,
Roger
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On 15/08/2017 23:37, Char Jackson wrote:
On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 20:27:15 +0100, Roger
wrote:

This is a new problem and has only existed for a few days. Office 2007
(32 bit) running on W7 Pro (32 bit).

When I click on the Office icon, the usual menu appears - file menu and
list of recent documents. BUT it then disappears after 1 or 2 seconds
before I've had time to select a recent document to open or select (say)
Save As . . in order to create a PDF file.

It could possibly be associated with a load of security updates to
Office 2007 which I installed on 2nd August, but my feeling is that it's
more recent than that.

Anyone else experienced this? Any clues about what to look for?

I had a different issue on Office 10 a few years ago. In my case,
clicking the File menu would cause the program to crash after about 2
seconds. I downloaded a tool from Microsoft called Office Configuration
Analyzer Tool (OffCAT) and let it do its scan. It said it made changes,
but I don't remember it telling what the changes were. Anyway,
everything worked after that. Since then I've upgraded to office 2013
and then 2016, but I assume the MS tool is still around.

Google says:
https://www.google.com/search?q=offcat



Thanks. It says that the tool works with Office 2007 but when I run it,
it does a scan and then says that Office 2007 is no longer supported,
and that I should upgrade to Office 2013 or later!

It hasn't changed anything, and the problem is still there.
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Cheers,
Roger
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Roger Mills wrote:

On 15/08/2017 22:47, VanguardLH wrote:
Roger Mills wrote:

This is a new problem and has only existed for a few days. Office 2007
(32 bit) running on W7 Pro (32 bit).

When I click on the Office icon, the usual menu appears - file menu and
list of recent documents. BUT it then disappears after 1 or 2 seconds
before I've had time to select a recent document to open or select (say)
Save As . . in order to create a PDF file.

It could possibly be associated with a load of security updates to
Office 2007 which I installed on 2nd August, but my feeling is that it's
more recent than that.

Anyone else experienced this? Any clues about what to look for?

TIA.

Did you disable any add-ons you installed into Office?

Not knowingly!

The point *is* to disable any add-ons and THEN test the behavior of the
Office components. Add-on add or change behaviors in Office.