Thanks for the link. I've been there already!
The problem is that I KNOW how to make shortcut bars in Office 2000. I've been doing that succesfully for a year now, and i've never had problems until recently. It's as if the changes just don't get stored at their rightful place in the Registry when I shut the computer down. So there must be something else going on.

Hope somebody has a clue!

Thanks again

Ton