Recently, I have been answering the question of how to restore a missing toolbar or ribbon from Microsoft Office tools like Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. This tip works for any of the Office tools 2007 or newer. Usually, the toolbar goes missing because of an errant click or keyboard combination.

In the video below, I show how to restore the ribbon using the little drop down menu in the upper left corner of any Office product (again, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc). After clicking the menu, simply uncheck the Minimize Ribbon option.

One bonus tip that I didn’t mention in the video: keyboard shortcut aficionados can use Ctrl+F1on the keyboard to hide or show the Microsoft Office Toolbar/Ribbon.

Here’s the video!

Word Menu Bar Missing

If the EndNote Tool Menu is Missing: Updating/reinstalling Word deletes the EndNote‐menu related files. A possible solution involves opening Word and following these steps Note: Pictured example uses Word 2007 - see below for Word 2010 and 2013: After opening Word Options: To restore EndNote tools in Word 2010-2013. Is it the toolbar that is missing, or the ribbon? If you see the headings File, Home, Insert, etc., just click one of them and the ribbon will open. Now go to the right end of the ribbon and click the little icon of a thumb tack to lock the ribb.