Re: seems I broke the FE of V7
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- Subject: [mg100148] Re: seems I broke the FE of V7
- From: Szabolcs <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 05:10:43 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <gvdr1v$6u6$1@smc.vnet.net>
On May 25, 1:14 pm, congruentialumina... at yahoo.com wrote: > Hello UG: > > I was using my XP based V7 system just fine until an hour ago or so. > Now all notebooks are unformatted. When I give a simple string "2+2", > then Ctrl-Enter does not evaluate it. The interface and the menus look > OK, but then I noticed that Format>>Style shows no styles, only a menu > separator and then "Other". Ctrl-Enter inserts rows in matrices. Shift-Enter evaluates. > I can guess that no cells are input cells, so they cannot be > evaluated. But how could I have blown all my styles away. > > The only "suspicious" thing that happened is that I downloaded a > Demostrations source package (about Planck's constant I think). It > evaluated and ran OK. I used help and ran some simple evals after the > Demonstration. > > Any helpful thoughts? Maybe I have to go to 7.0.1 now. You can try resetting the front end by holding down shift, alt, and ctrl while it's starting up. I've no idea if this will help in your case, though.