Top text menu not showing on Song Surgeon

Top text menu not showing on Song Surgeon

On some older machine, the top text menu, at the very top of the Song Surgeon user interface appears to be missing.


To fix this issue to the following. 

Open SS
Select Control + Shift + Q
This will open a window that looks like this (below)
Click the tab that says "Other Issues"
Select the checkbox that says "fix menu"
Then click the Apply button.



If this doesn't fix the issue, please complete a Help Desk ticket.


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