Insert Menu

Hi all, I'm a new member but need help terribly--in the middle of
dissertation work and the symbol option under "insert" disappeared. it
actually did so after i clicked on it when my mouse arrow looked like a long
black hypen. i'm not a techy but still a consistent user so could follow
help/support.

Ladybug wrote:

Hi all, I'm a new member but need help terribly--in the middle of
dissertation work and the symbol option under "insert" disappeared. it
actually did so after i clicked on it when my mouse arrow looked like a
long black hypen. i'm not a techy but still a consistent user so could
follow help/support.

So what word processing package are you actually using?

--
Gordon Burgess-Parker
Systems and Management Accounting
www.gbpcomputing.co.uk

i'm using windows xp professional 2002

"Gordon" wrote:

Ladybug wrote:

Hi all, I'm a new member but need help terribly--in the middle of
dissertation work and the symbol option under "insert" disappeared. it
actually did so after i clicked on it when my mouse arrow looked like a
long black hypen. i'm not a techy but still a consistent user so could
follow help/support.

So what word processing package are you actually using?

--
Gordon Burgess-Parker
Systems and Management Accounting
www.gbpcomputing.co.uk

Ladybug wrote:
i'm using windows xp professional 2002

"Gordon" wrote:

Ladybug wrote:

Hi all, I'm a new member but need help terribly--in the middle of
dissertation work and the symbol option under "insert" disappeared. it
actually did so after i clicked on it when my mouse arrow looked like a
long black hypen. i'm not a techy but still a consistent user so could
follow help/support.

So what word processing package are you actually using?

--
Gordon Burgess-Parker
Systems and Management Accounting
www.gbpcomputing.co.uk


Windows XP Professional 2002 is your operating system. What word
processor are you using, Microsoft Word? Microsoft Office Word XP?
Microsoft Office Word 2003? Microsoft Works? WordPerfect? OpenOffice?

If you are using MS Word go to Tools, then Customize, at the Commands
Tab select Insert in the left hand window then, in the right hand
window scroll down to Symbol, highlight it then holding down the left
button on the mouse drag "Symbol" up to the Insert Menu, when it opens
release the left button so as to drop the command at the position you
want it placed.

If your using Microsft Word, click on Insert and then click on the chevron
looking arrow at the bottom of the menu. MS Word hides some menu choices
that you have not used in a while.

from Microsft Word HELP:
quote
Microsoft Office automatically customizes menus and toolbars based on how
often you use the commands. When you first start an Office program, only the
most basic commands appear. Then, as you work, the menus and toolbars adjust
so that only the commands and toolbar buttons you use most often appear.

To look for a command that you don't use often or have never used before,
click the arrows V at the bottom of the menu to show all the commands. You
can also double-click the menu to expand it. When you expand one menu, all
of the menus are expanded until you choose a command or perform another
action. When you click a command on the expanded menu, the command is
immediately added to the short version of the menu. If you do not use the
command often, it is dropped from the short version of the menu.
quote

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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Ladybug hunted and pecked:
Hi all, I'm a new member but need help terribly--in the middle of
dissertation work and the symbol option under "insert" disappeared. it
actually did so after i clicked on it when my mouse arrow looked like a
long black hypen. i'm not a techy but still a consistent user so could
follow help/support.

Ladybug wrote:

i'm using windows xp professional 2002


No, that's an operating system. Please don't mix up operating systems and
application software. Gordon asked what word processing program you're
using. Possible answers are things like WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, and so
on. Nobody can help you unless they know the answer to that question.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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"Gordon" wrote:

Ladybug wrote:

Hi all, I'm a new member but need help terribly--in the middle of
dissertation work and the symbol option under "insert" disappeared.
it actually did so after i clicked on it when my mouse arrow looked
like a long black hypen. i'm not a techy but still a consistent
user so could follow help/support.

So what word processing package are you actually using?

--
Gordon Burgess-Parker
Systems and Management Accounting
www.gbpcomputing.co.uk

hi all,
i really appreciate your response GreenieLeBrun.
i'm set and ready to keep writing! and, of course
i DO apologize for my ignorance

"GreenieLeBrun" wrote:


Ladybug wrote:
i'm using windows xp professional 2002

"Gordon" wrote:

Ladybug wrote:

Hi all, I'm a new member but need help terribly--in the middle of
dissertation work and the symbol option under "insert" disappeared. it
actually did so after i clicked on it when my mouse arrow looked like a
long black hypen. i'm not a techy but still a consistent user so could
follow help/support.

So what word processing package are you actually using?

--
Gordon Burgess-Parker
Systems and Management Accounting
www.gbpcomputing.co.uk


Windows XP Professional 2002 is your operating system. What word
processor are you using, Microsoft Word? Microsoft Office Word XP?
Microsoft Office Word 2003? Microsoft Works? WordPerfect? OpenOffice?

If you are using MS Word go to Tools, then Customize, at the Commands
Tab select Insert in the left hand window then, in the right hand
window scroll down to Symbol, highlight it then holding down the left
button on the mouse drag "Symbol" up to the Insert Menu, when it opens
release the left button so as to drop the command at the position you
want it placed.