disappearing shortcut bar

[UkMister]

Hi, this may be a silly question but here goes anyway.

I have a machine on our network that runs windows 2000 and office 2000. Recently I was asked if I could install the XP version of Powerpoint but keep the other programs (word execl etc) as 2000. This I did and everything seems to be working fine EXCEPT that the office shortcut bar is now missing and it isn't in the location I'd expect.

There is a shortcut that looks like the shortcutbar but the path leads to somewhere in the XP office folder. If I click on it, nothing happens.

Any ideas on what has happened? Is it possible to have a shortcut bar at all with Office 2000 & XP programs running on the same machine? Is there any more issues I should know about?

I wouldn't normally do this but for some users, they need access to certain features of both versions.

Many thanks for your help

Gary

 

[Greatgazzoo]

You need to reinstall the shortcut bar for the version you want. If you want the 2000 shortcut bar then reinstall office 2000 and uncheck the powerpoint program. I have never tried this but it might work. We always use quick launch instead as it uses less resources and is included as part of windows 2000 pro.