disappearing toolbar

[LouP]

My math toolbar has disappeared, and I can't find it. I have run 11.2a for years on my XP PC, and have always had the this toolbar to launch the others. It's the one shown below, the one that has, e.g., the mortarboard icon to launch the detailed symbolic menu. One day, it was just gone. I have toggled its selection on off in the View=> Toolbars menu to no avail; it never displays. I have rebooted, done a repair, all without effect. I have undocked all my other toolbars to make sure that the math toolbar wasn't somehow covered up. It wasn't.

I can launch the desired detailed toolbars using the View menu, so I'm not limited in capability (although some colleagues may dispute this :- ). However, it is inconvenient, and quite puzzling. I suspect there is some simple fix for this, but I don't know it. Any ideas?

Lou

[Fred_Kohlhepp]

Lou Poulo wrote:

My math toolbar has disappeared, and I can't find it. I have run 11.2a for years on my XP PC, and have always had the this toolbar to launch the others. It's the one shown below, the one that has, e.g., the mortarboard icon to launch the detailed symbolic menu. One day, it was just gone. I have toggled its selection on off in the View=> Toolbars menu to no avail; it never displays. I have rebooted, done a repair, all without effect. I have undocked all my other toolbars to make sure that the math toolbar wasn't somehow covered up. It wasn't.

I can launch the desired detailed toolbars using the View menu, so I'm not limited in capability (although some colleagues may dispute this :- ). However, it is inconvenient, and quite puzzling. I suspect there is some simple fix for this, but I don't know it. Any ideas?

Lou

From the menu, "View>toolbars>math" make sure math is checked. On my 11.2 this eliminates or puts the math menu back on the top.

[MagnusEklund]

On thing that can make this happen is if you have changed the screen resolution. If you earlier had greater resultion, placed the toolbar far down or to the right, then decreased the resolution. Then you have your toolbar outside of your screen. To get it back you then need to increase resolution and move the toolbar back in.

Regards,

Magnus

[LouP]

Thanks for the hint; I found it. I have not changed resolution in eons, but your comment made me look behind my taskbar, which I keep as a strip on the left side of my screen. When I minimized the taskbar (autohide), I found the culpri, and put it back in its usual place.

This must be related to another behavior. With my taskbar on the left as noted, a maximized window should not go to left edge of the display, but only to the right edge of the taskbar. The main MCD window does this, as do all other applications. However, for the life of the installation, I have noticed that when I launch MCD help, it aligned the window to the left edge of the display, where it is partially hidden by the taskbar. I guess this should be classified as a bug, but in any case I have always simply moved the help window into full view. the toolbar was small enough so that it was completely hidden, and I never thought to look there. For whatever reason, mathcad seems to ignore the taskbar location for certain display items, and the toolbars must be in this set.

Lou