Word 2002 text-to-table missing

[maestrogn]

I've been customizing and streamlining my Word 2002. Suddenly, when a table is selected, the Table menu no longer appears giving me access to

text-to-table
table-to-text

I've looked everywhere I can think of (including customizing tool bars and looking under all commands -- nowhere).

Thanks for the help.

maestrogn

[Steve_D]

If Customize took it away, Customize should be able to bring it back. I don't have that version of Word, so I'm ad libbing here, but you should be able to access it by something like:
Tools - Customize - Menus
Then choose the Table command and find the Convert text to table command. Drag it to the Table menu
Same for any other commands that have disappeared.
Cheers
Steve

[maestrogn]

Thanks for the reply, but that's not it.

I'm referring to the menu line "File Edit View Insert etc." -- not icons, but the menus attached to the word menus that you can get to via F10.

The menus you refer to bring up the menus with icons. I have tables and borders for that, but I once had the menu word "Tables" up at the top and cannot find out how to get it back.

Thanks

[Steve_D]

Hi maestrogn
Again, I need to preface this by saying that I don't have that version of Word in front of me (I'm using 2007, which is very different), but Tools, Customize should let you add, remove and change menus as well as toolbars (buttons). If necessary you can rebuild the whole Table menu if it's not there.
But I think an easier way it to delete your Normal template (which stores all your cusomizations). Then when you restart Word, it will recreate a clean Normal template based on its default settings, and all should be OK.
To do that, quit Word and find the file Normal.dot. It's probably in one of these locations:

• Installed Templates:
  C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033
• User Templates Path (Default folder):
  C:\Documents and Settings\<Username>\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates

If not, you might have to do a search to find it, and you might have to show hidden files in your folder options.

You can either delete it or rename it and move it to another folder for safe keeping.
Then restart Word and all should be back to "Normal"!
Cheers
Steve