FrameMaker 10 missing toolbars in Windows 7

Report · Sep 11, 2011

I use Parallels on a MacBook Pro to run Windows. Yesterday I finally got around to installing Windows 7 (patched up to date) and then Frame 10 (with update) on it, but there appears to be one problem so far: Three of the four toolbars offered by Frame 10 in WIndows XP are missing in Windows 7. Win XP has quick access, paragraph, text, and graphics; while in Windows 7 the only one offered is quick access. Menus are set to "complete". The one I care about is the graphics toolbar.

Anyone else see this or know of a fix? Thanks.

Report · Sep 11, 2011

Tim,

the online help says: »To display the Tools panel, choose Graphics > Tools or View > Toolbars > Graphics Toolbar.« And that is what I see with FM10 on Win7/64 inside Parallels.

Do you have none of the options or does the toolbar just not appear?

- Michael

Report · Sep 11, 2011

There is ... well, was ... only the one item.

BUT ... I got it back, as well as the others! I pressed the shortcuts to show the missing toolbars, and now all of them are there, but in a different order than usual. So I'm good to go. Thanks.

Report · Sep 12, 2011

Tim,

Your screenshot shows the Window menu, which is supposed to show the visible stuff only. To activate a toolbar you would go to the View menu or in this case the Graphics menu.

You might ask: Why are there so many options to access the one thing? My answer: I don’t know. .

- Michael

PS: If you re-install FrameMaker, never do so from DVD, always copy the installer to disk first.

Report · Sep 13, 2011

Your screenshot shows the Window menu, which is supposed to show the visible stuff only. To activate a toolbar you would go to the View menu or in this case the Graphics menu.

On my XP from first install, the Windows > Toolbars menu has shown all four and they are always persistent. Each toolbar name is a toggle: Select an item and the corresponding toolbar appears (and a check mark appears next to the name); select it again, and the toolbar disappears, but the menu item remains, sans check mark. Windows 7 is now behaving the same, once I enabled them via keyboard shortcut. And I just tested that if I turn off a toolbar using View > Toolbars, its name still appears, without a check mark, in Windows > Toolbars. I bet I have selected View > Toolbars maybe twice, ever, and I use Frame every day. I swear!

Report · Sep 12, 2011

Hi Tim,

please open the View Menu, there are the following Menu items:
Quick Access, Pods, ... then you can decide what Quick Access Panel or Pod you want to open.

Note: Save your decision as your Workspace.

- Maike