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  #31  
Old August 18th 17, 12:03 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
John K.Eason
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Default Office 2007 Word & Excel - disappearing Office menu

In article , (VanguardLH) wrote:

*From:* VanguardLH
*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).

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  #32  
Old August 18th 17, 01:43 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Ed Cryer
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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
  #33  
Old August 18th 17, 02:21 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mr. Man-wai Chang
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Default Office 2007 Word & Excel - disappearing Office menu

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.

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  #34  
Old August 18th 17, 10:03 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Roger Mills[_2_]
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Default Office 2007 Word & Excel - disappearing Office menu

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.
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Old August 19th 17, 08:23 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Roger Mills[_2_]
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Default Office 2007 Word & Excel - disappearing Office menu

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.
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Old August 19th 17, 09:01 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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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
  #39  
Old August 19th 17, 09:07 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Zaidy036[_5_]
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Default Office 2007 Word & Excel - disappearing Office menu

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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