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Office 2007 Word & Excel - disappearing Office menu
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Office 2007 Word & Excel - disappearing Office menu
VanguardLH wrote:
John K.Eason wrote: Hopefully someone will have mentioned it to TPTB at Dropbox by then and a fixed version will be out. For Office *2007*? I don't think Dropbox will spend any time fixing their newest version program on an archaic version of Office whose standard support ended back in October 2012 and whose *extended* support ends in a couple months in October 2017. Of course, any company is willing to expend resources on any project if you pay them enough. I have Windows 7 64 bit, Office Enterprise 2007 and Dropbox. All are fully up to date, all have been together for several years; and there's absolutely no sign of the OP's problem. Mind you, in DBox settings I have no to MS Office add-in, and "Never Show" for DBox Badge. Ed |
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On 17/8/2017 5:48 AM, Roger Mills wrote:
Someone suggested that the problem may be connected in some way with Dropbox. This seems quite possible. I have closed all Dropbox processes in Task Manager, and this *appears* to have fixed the problem. It's too early to tell whether I've *really* fixed it - but it looks hopeful. You could also search for "office 2007 dropbox ribbon menu" in Google and see what results popped up. -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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On 18/08/2017 12:03, John K.Eason wrote:
In , (VanguardLH) wrote: *From:* *Date:* Thu, 17 Aug 2017 18:49:11 -0500 John K.Eason wrote: Hopefully someone will have mentioned it to TPTB at Dropbox by then and a fixed version will be out. For Office *2007*? I don't think Dropbox will spend any time fixing their newest version program on an archaic version of Office whose standard support ended back in October 2012 and whose *extended* support ends in a couple months in October 2017. Of course, any company is willing to expend resources on any project if you pay them enough. I suspect there are many thousands of folks still using Office 2007 who have no wish to upgrade (as there are with Windows 7). It may well affect later versions of MS Office too - I don't know 'cos I've only got 2007. I've just done a little experiment: 1. Tested Excel with Dropbox still disabled (I disabled it a couple of days ago). Office menu worked fine. 2. Started up Dropbox manually, and re-tested Excel. The disappearing Office menu problem was immediately back! 3. Set Dropbox to never show Dropbox badge, and re-tested Excel. Office menu worked fine again. All credit to those in this NG who identified it as an issue with Dropbox. I had Googled the problem extensively, and hadn't come across the slightest hint that it might have something to do with Dropbox. -- Cheers, Roger ____________ Please reply to Newsgroup. Whilst email address is valid, it is seldom checked. |
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On 8/19/2017 3:23 PM, Roger Mills wrote:
On 19/08/2017 00:21, John K.Eason wrote: In , (Roger Mills) wrote: All credit to those in this NG who identified it as an issue with Dropbox. I had Googled the problem extensively, and hadn't come across the slightest hint that it might have something to do with Dropbox. All credit to those in this NG who identified it as an issue with Dropbox. I had Googled the problem extensively, and hadn't come across the slightest hint that it might have something to do with Dropbox. I'm a long-term member (30+ years) of a private conferencing network in the UK. It was one of our members (many of whom are IT professionals) who noticed the problem and decided to investigate it thoroughly. He guessed it was a problem with Office briefly losing focus so disabled any background programs one by one until he found that Dropbox was the culprit. He then went through all its settings until he found the one that stopped it! :^) That's interesting - thanks. When did he discover it? I only experienced the problem very recently when Dropbox automatically updated itself - but it sounds from what you say that it could have been an issue for much longer than that. I offer the following batch as a DropBox On - Off toggle: Replace "CALL COLOR.bat Y" with "ECHO" if you do not have Color.bat Remove "Change CMD Window..." if you do not have Nircmd :: _DropBox_Stop_Start.bat @ECHO OFF :: Change CMD Window title, size, and position :: ================================================== ======== SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS & (TITLE _Dropbox_Stop_Start.bat) & ENDLOCAL START "" /WAIT "C:\Program Files\nircmd-x64\nircmd.exe" win setsize stitle "Administrator" 400 200 600 500 TASKLIST | FIND "Dropbox.exe" NUL IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 ( TASKKILL /IM Dropbox.exe /T /F NUL ECHO( & ECHO( & CALL COLOR.bat Y " DropBox is now stopped" ) ELSE ( ECHO( & ECHO( & CALL COLOR.bat Y " DropBox is not running" ) ECHO( & CALL COLOR.bat R " Press any key to restart Dropbox" & PAUSE NUL START "" C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox\bin\Dropbox. exe ECHO( & CALL COLOR.bat G " Dropbox has restarted" & ECHO( & Timeout 5 EXIT |
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On 8/18/2017 7:11 PM, John K.Eason wrote:
In article , (Ed Cryer) wrote: *From:* Ed Cryer *Date:* Fri, 18 Aug 2017 13:43:32 +0100 VanguardLH wrote: John K.Eason wrote: Hopefully someone will have mentioned it to TPTB at Dropbox by then and a fixed version will be out. For Office *2007*? I don't think Dropbox will spend any time fixing their newest version program on an archaic version of Office whose standard support ended back in October 2012 and whose *extended* support ends in a couple months in October 2017. Of course, any company is willing to expend resources on any project if you pay them enough. I have Windows 7 64 bit, Office Enterprise 2007 and Dropbox. All are fully up to date, all have been together for several years; and there's absolutely no sign of the OP's problem. Mind you, in DBox settings I have no to MS Office add-in, and "Never Show" for DBox Badge. As a matter of interest, try turning DBox Badge on and see if it plays up for you. It only takes a few seconds to turn it on and off. A batch to toggle Dropbox on/off Replace "CALL COLOR.bat Y" with "ECHO" if you do not have Color.bat Remove "Change CMD Window..." section if you do not have Nircmd @ECHO OFF :: Change CMD Window title, size, and position :: ================================================== ========== SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS & (TITLE _Dropboxt_Stop_Start.bat) & ENDLOCAL START "" /WAIT "C:\Program Files\nircmd-x64\nircmd.exe" win setsize stitle "Administrator" 400 200 600 500 TASKLIST | FIND "Dropbox.exe" NUL IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 ( TASKKILL /IM Dropbox.exe /T /F NUL ECHO( & ECHO( & CALL COLOR.bat Y " DropBox is now stopped" ) ELSE ( ECHO( & ECHO( & CALL COLOR.bat Y " DropBox is not running" ) ECHO( & CALL COLOR.bat R " Press any key to restart Dropbox" & PAUSE NUL START "" C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox\bin\Dropbox. exe ECHO( & CALL COLOR.bat G " Dropbox has restarted" & ECHO( & Timeout 5 EXIT |
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On 19/08/2017 23:54, John K.Eason wrote:
In , (Roger Mills) wrote: That's interesting - thanks. When did he discover it? I only experienced the problem very recently when Dropbox automatically updated itself - but it sounds from what you say that it could have been an issue for much longer than that. Just looked back at the first mention of it and it was first noticed last Sunday (13th), so pretty recently. It's pretty certainly just a problem with the latest manifestation of Dropbox then. -- Cheers, Roger ____________ Please reply to Newsgroup. Whilst email address is valid, it is seldom checked. |
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In article , (Roger Mills)
wrote: *From:* Roger Mills *Date:* Sun, 20 Aug 2017 23:01:23 +0100 On 19/08/2017 23:54, John K.Eason wrote: In , (Roger Mills) wrote: That's interesting - thanks. When did he discover it? I only experienced the problem very recently when Dropbox automatically updated itself - but it sounds from what you say that it could have been an issue for much longer than that. Just looked back at the first mention of it and it was first noticed last Sunday (13th), so pretty recently. It's pretty certainly just a problem with the latest manifestation of Dropbox then. -- Cheers, Roger I emailed Dropbox support about this and they have just issued a fixed beta version which can be downloaded at https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Desk...18/m-p/238110/ highlight/false#M4232 or http://tinyurl.com/y8j8t5qg for a short link. -- Regards John ) Remove the obvious to reply... |
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