If you ever find your word 2003 missing the tools option from the top menu of the application, the reset for this is recreating your normal.dot file.
The normal.dot file used by word is very important to words operation. Recreating this file is easy and solves a lot of corruption problems in word.
Search your computer for the file "normal.dot" without quotes. Each user of the computer will have their own normal.dot file in their profile. If your search results for normal.dot are more than one, look to make sure the normal.dot file you are about to rename is in your windows profile. You know this by going to the properties on the file in the search result. If the path to the normal.dot file is in a folder that has your windows login, use that one. What we want to do to the normal.dot file is rename it to normalOld.dot
By changing the name of the normal.dot to something else, allows office to recreate the normal.dot file the next time word 2003 starts. When office recreates the normal.dot, it fixes corruption and bad things that have caused your problem.
You should rename the normal.dot file when word is closed. If word is open you may get an access denied error when trying to rename it.
Recreating the normal.dot file fixes a wide range of problems with word. This note is specific to the missing tools menu in word 2003.
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