WD2000: Clipboard Toolbar Does Not Remain Visible

• Microsoft Word 2000

SYMPTOMS

When you view or dock the Clipboard toolbar (on the View menu, point to Toolbars, and then click Clipboard) and then quit and restart Word, the Clipboard toolbar is no longer visible.

CAUSE

This behavior is by design. The Active Clipboard toolbar is different from other toolbars because it is global. That is, there is one Active Clipboard toolbar that persists across all Office applications (even simultaneously). If you open the toolbar in one Office application, it is open in other Office applications. If only one Office application is open, when you quit that Office application, for example, Word, the toolbar returns to its non-displayed or non-visible state.

WORKAROUND

To work around this behavior, you can create a macro to display the Clipboard toolbar every time you start Word.

The following example Visual Basic for Applications procedure displays the Clipboard toolbar if it is not displayed already and then docks the toolbar.

NOTE: You must name the procedure AutoExec to run when Word is started.

Sub AutoExec()
   Dim cbClip As CommandBar
   Set cbClip = CommandBars("Clipboard")
   With cbClip
      If Not .Visible Then
         .Visible = True           ' Show toolbar.
         .Position = msoBarTop     ' Dock at top of application.
         .RowIndex = msoBarRowLast ' Dock below other toolbars.
      End If
   End With
End Sub 

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REFERENCES

For more information about using the sample code in this article, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q212536 OFF2000: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles

Keywords          : kbdta wd2000 
Version           : WINDOWS:2000
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbprb 

Last Reviewed: July 1, 1999