jahayes@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (04/18/91)
Here's an odd problem. I'm using Word 4.0, as I usually have done since it came out. Today I come into my office, flip on my 2.5M vanilla Plus, running 6.0.7, fire up Word, and it says there's a serious disk error in file Word Prefs (I think) 4....now it runs fine, but when I pull down the font menu, I get a full screen - and I DO mean, full screen - of grayed-out junk. No font names, no font sizes. The relative distance down from the menu bar seems to work okay, though, and I tend to shift fonts using cmd-shft-e anyway, so it's no biggy; and of course I have the original disks and other backups to restore it from, BUT, I'm curious. What went spang? How might one fix it, just restore from backup? Posts or e-mail, either is fine; I'll summarize if there's interest. Josh Hayes, Zoology, Miami of Ohio jahayes@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
dana@are.berkeley.edu (Dana E. Keil) (04/18/91)
jahayes@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes: >Here's an odd problem. >I'm using Word 4.0, as I usually have done since it came out. Today >I come into my office, flip on my 2.5M vanilla Plus, running 6.0.7, >fire up Word, and it says there's a serious disk error in file Word >Prefs (I think) 4....now it runs fine, but when I pull down the font >menu, I get a full screen - and I DO mean, full screen - of grayed-out >junk. No font names, no font sizes. As the message said, your Word Settings file got munged. That's where all the menu info is stored. Go into your system folder and trash the Word Settings (4) file. Then when you start Word again you'll be back to the default settings and the fonts and menus should be back. You will have to choose "Full Menus" to get off the short menus that it defaults to; you will also loose any customization of menus you may have made using the "commands" menu item. -- Dana E. Keil Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics University of California, Berkeley dana@are.berkeley.edu