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Seems the problem was with a corrupt Normal.dot file. &nbsp;Deleted file, restarted Word and let it recreate normal.dot and now works like a charm.
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Seems the problem was with a corrupt Normal.dot file.  Deleted file, restarted Word and let it recreate normal.dot and now works like a charm.

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When opening a Word document in Internet Explorer, the MS Word related drop down menus do not work properly. &nbsp;File, GoTo, Favorites and Help menus work. &nbsp;Edit, View, Insert, Format, Tools and Table menus do not work. If an Excel file is opened, those menus work properly.<br />
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On another similarly configured machine (XP SP3, Office 2003, IE 8), the menus work fine. &nbsp;All the IE settings have been compared and they match. &nbsp;<br />
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What gives?
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When opening a Word document in Internet Explorer, the MS Word related drop down menus do not work properly.  File, GoTo, Favorites and Help menus work.  Edit, View, Insert, Format, Tools and Table menus do not work. If an Excel file is opened, those menus work properly.

On another similarly configured machine (XP SP3, Office 2003, IE 8), the menus work fine.  All the IE settings have been compared and they match.  

What gives?

Word drop down menus not working in internet explorer

Microsoft Word is a commercial document editing program that is part of the Microsoft Office suite. It features numerous text-editing tools for creating richly formatted documents, along with tools for the use of macros in Word documents. Word's native file formats are denoted either by a .doc or .docx file extension. Plugins permitting the Windows versions of Word to read and write formats it does not natively support, such as the OpenDocument format (ODF) are available. Word can import and display images in common bitmap formats such as JPG and GIF. It can also be used to create and display simple line-art.

Microsoft Word

Web browsers are applications used primarily to display documents, files and media from the Internet, identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that can be a page, image, video or other file. Some browsers require the use of add-ons or extensions to safely render the information they receive; others have systems built into them to perform the same functions.