Removing unwanted right click menu item in Word 2000

PatsyC

I installed a program which created an entry in the right click menu. When I
uninstalled the program the right click item remained. How can I remove it?
I have tried looking for it in the Registry but can't find it. I've tried
renaming Normal.dot and generating a new Normal.dot (which got rid of it) but
even though I have followed all the instructions, I cannot find how to copy
my many, many macros into the new Normal.dot. In the macro organizer it only
shows things like Modules, Classes and User Forms. Is there a simple
solution, please?

Suzanne S. Barnhill

Tools | Customize. Select the Toolbars tab. Check the box for Shortcut
Menus. You'll get a toolbar showing Text, Table, and Draw. Each is a menu
listing the shortcut (context) menus for that category. There are a *lot* of
them. Open each one in turn and drag the offending item off.

You might want to start with just one or two of these. Before you waste time
tracking them all down, check to make sure that they don't come back when
you restart Word. If they do, there's likely a leftover add-in from your
program that Word is loading at Startup. It may be in the Word Startup
folder, and you may find it listed under Tools | Templates and Add-ins (in
which case you can get the path to it), but if not, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...sInstalled.htm

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"PatsyC" <PatsyC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9E0BC558-F885-49EB-9A31-502F04E70F15@microsoft.com...
>I installed a program which created an entry in the right click menu. When
>I
> uninstalled the program the right click item remained. How can I remove
> it?
> I have tried looking for it in the Registry but can't find it. I've tried
> renaming Normal.dot and generating a new Normal.dot (which got rid of it)
> but
> even though I have followed all the instructions, I cannot find how to
> copy
> my many, many macros into the new Normal.dot. In the macro organizer it
> only
> shows things like Modules, Classes and User Forms. Is there a simple
> solution, please?
>

PatsyC

Thank you Suzanne. Worked perfectly.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

> Tools | Customize. Select the Toolbars tab. Check the box for Shortcut
> Menus. You'll get a toolbar showing Text, Table, and Draw. Each is a menu
> listing the shortcut (context) menus for that category. There are a *lot* of
> them. Open each one in turn and drag the offending item off.
>
> You might want to start with just one or two of these. Before you waste time
> tracking them all down, check to make sure that they don't come back when
> you restart Word. If they do, there's likely a leftover add-in from your
> program that Word is loading at Startup. It may be in the Word Startup
> folder, and you may find it listed under Tools | Templates and Add-ins (in
> which case you can get the path to it), but if not, see
> http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...sInstalled.htm
>
> --
> Suzanne S. Barnhill
> Microsoft MVP (Word)
> Words into Type
> Fairhope, Alabama USA
>
> "PatsyC" <PatsyC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9E0BC558-F885-49EB-9A31-502F04E70F15@microsoft.com...
> >I installed a program which created an entry in the right click menu. When
> >I
> > uninstalled the program the right click item remained. How can I remove
> > it?
> > I have tried looking for it in the Registry but can't find it. I've tried
> > renaming Normal.dot and generating a new Normal.dot (which got rid of it)
> > but
> > even though I have followed all the instructions, I cannot find how to
> > copy
> > my many, many macros into the new Normal.dot. In the macro organizer it
> > only
> > shows things like Modules, Classes and User Forms. Is there a simple
> > solution, please?
> >
>
>
>