OFF2000: Show Office Toolbars Button May Not Be Available

ID: Q245755

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Office 2000
Microsoft Excel 2000
Microsoft Word 2000
Microsoft PowerPoint 2000
Microsoft Access 2000
Microsoft Internet Explorer version 3.0 for Windows 3.1

SYMPTOMS

When you view a Microsoft Office 2000 document in Microsoft Internet Explorer version 3.0, the Show Office Toolbars button may not be visible on the toolbar, and you are unable to use toolbars belonging to the Microsoft Office 97 program.

CAUSE

This occurs if the document you are viewing is embedded within a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) document through the use of an <IFRAME> tag.
This behavior is by design of Microsoft Internet Explorer version 3.0.

RESOLUTION

To avoid this problem, do not embed a Microsoft Office document within <IFRAME> tags if the use of toolbars is absolutely necessary. Instead, open your document directly in Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0, rather than embed it in an HTML document.

MORE INFORMATION

The Show Office Toolbars button appears on the toolbar in Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 when you open a document that belongs to a Microsoft Office 97 program, such as Microsoft Excel 97.

When you open a Microsoft Office document in Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0, the following events occur:

The document is opened and displayed.

The Microsoft Office program's menus are displayed.

Toolbars that are both undocked and visible are displayed.

NOTE: Toolbars that are both docked and visible are NOT automatically displayed. To display such toolbars, click the Show Office Toolbars button. If you want to hide the docked and visible toolbars again, click the Hide Office Toolbars button.

If you open an HTML document that contains a Microsoft Office document embedded within an <IFRAME> tag, the Show Office Toolbars button will not appear on the toolbar.

Here is an example of an HTML document that contains an embedded Microsoft Office document:


   <HTML>
   <BODY>
   <IFRAME SRC="http://myserver/myfile.xls" WIDTH=600 HEIGHT=400>
   </IFRAME>
   </BODY>
   </HTML>

The <IFRAME> tag creates a floating frame that contains the specified Microsoft Office document.

If you open this HTML document, the Microsoft Excel workbook is displayed, but the Show Office Toolbars button is not.

Additional query words: grey gray OFF20 XL20 WORD20 ACC20 PPT20 OFF2000

Keywords : kbdta xlloadsave offweb xlweb
Version : WINDOWS:2000,3.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb