Is there a substitute for Office Shortcut Bar

[Ken Leonard]

Howdy;

Sheesh! If I had known that the bright minds at MS had deleted the
Shortcut Bar from Office 2003, I almost might not have bought it!!!

That S-Bar was one of the two or three most useful parts of the entire
product suite.

Does anyone know of a not-too-expensive, competent replacement for the
S-Bar that is (nearly) free of feature-bloat and kew effex?

Thanx,
Ken

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Ken Leonard
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[Epona]

Howdy;

Sheesh! If I had known that the bright minds at MS had deleted the
Shortcut Bar from Office 2003, I almost might not have bought it!!!

That S-Bar was one of the two or three most useful parts of the entire
product suite.

Does anyone know of a not-too-expensive, competent replacement for the
S-Bar that is (nearly) free of feature-bloat and kew effex?

Thanx,
Ken

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Ken Leonard
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I never used the OSB. Instead I made my own: -

1) Create a folder in root C:\ (or whatever your main drive is)

2) Name it 'Office' or whatever

3) Open another instance of c: and browse to the following folder C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11

4) Inside that folder you will see icons to the various Office
applications - create shortcuts to the various applications inside the
folder you created in the root of your main directory.

5) Right click a clear area of the main Taskbar and select Toolbars > New
Toolbar.

6) Navigate to the folder you created on C and click OK.

You now have your own OSB (after a fashion). It may not be pretty, but it
works.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

You can use the OSB from a previous version of Office (Office XP's seems to
work best for this) or you can use the Taskbar for launching your Office
programs. The OSB was discontinued since the 2 operating systems on which
it works provide a built-in toolbar via the taskbar. Reducing bloat is
good, no?

Also, some folks have reported that using the JetAudio toolbar mimics the
OSB very nicely.


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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the SWEN virus, all mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
without reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Ken Leonard asked:

| Howdy;
|
| Sheesh! If I had known that the bright minds at MS had deleted the
| Shortcut Bar from Office 2003, I almost might not have bought it!!!
|
| That S-Bar was one of the two or three most useful parts of the entire
| product suite.
|
| Does anyone know of a not-too-expensive, competent replacement for the
| S-Bar that is (nearly) free of feature-bloat and kew effex?
|
| Thanx,
| Ken
|
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| Ken Leonard
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[Ken Leonard]

Howdy, Milly and all;

Actually, I think the WinXP Launch Bar is a bad joke compared to OSB:
--it's harder to set up or change;
--it's much-much smaller than the OSB;
--using it reduces the already-small space available for window
anchors;
--it doesn't allow the "blank" button positions that made for really
nice groups-of-icons in the OSB.

The OSB, used _by_itself_ without the "Office Manager" thingie (or
whatever that other piece of code was called) is hardly what I'd call
a case of sys-bloat.

I don't have Office XP.

If I could convince the Office 2000 in-re-de-installer to run (it's a
victim of the Installer 1.x versus 2.x debacle), I'd clean-out
everything except the OSB and try using it. Except that I've seen at
least one warning that it should not be used along with Ofiice 2003.

See my recent post titled "How to uninstall Office 2000 after install
Office 2003".

Grumpz,
Ken

You can use the OSB from a previous version of Office (Office XP's seems to
work best for this) or you can use the Taskbar for launching your Office
programs. The OSB was discontinued since the 2 operating systems on which
it works provide a built-in toolbar via the taskbar. Reducing bloat is
good, no?

Also, some folks have reported that using the JetAudio toolbar mimics the
OSB very nicely.


--?
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the SWEN virus, all mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
without reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Ken Leonard asked:

| Howdy;
|
| Sheesh! If I had known that the bright minds at MS had deleted the
| Shortcut Bar from Office 2003, I almost might not have bought it!!!
|
| That S-Bar was one of the two or three most useful parts of the entire
| product suite.
|
| Does anyone know of a not-too-expensive, competent replacement for the
| S-Bar that is (nearly) free of feature-bloat and kew effex?
|
| Thanx,
| Ken
|
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| Ken Leonard
| (e-mail address removed) [Edit it to make it work.]

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[Ken Leonard]

Howdy;

Hummm -- I just now tried it.

Comes pretty close to being a damnfine idea.

It looks like it can be re-ordered, too, to display the icons in the
order I prefer. We'll see if the reordering persists from logoff to
logon, or across shutdown-restart.

I bet I can figure a way to make a "blank" icon to separate groups.

Is there a way to tell it where, in the entire XP taskbar, it ought to
park?

Thanx,
Ken

Howdy;

Sheesh! If I had known that the bright minds at MS had deleted the
Shortcut Bar from Office 2003, I almost might not have bought it!!!

That S-Bar was one of the two or three most useful parts of the entire
product suite.

Does anyone know of a not-too-expensive, competent replacement for the
S-Bar that is (nearly) free of feature-bloat and kew effex?

Thanx,
Ken

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Ken Leonard
(e-mail address removed) [Edit it to make it work.]

I never used the OSB. Instead I made my own: -

1) Create a folder in root C:\ (or whatever your main drive is)

2) Name it 'Office' or whatever

3) Open another instance of c: and browse to the following folder C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11

4) Inside that folder you will see icons to the various Office
applications - create shortcuts to the various applications inside the
folder you created in the root of your main directory.

5) Right click a clear area of the main Taskbar and select Toolbars > New
Toolbar.

6) Navigate to the folder you created on C and click OK.

You now have your own OSB (after a fashion). It may not be pretty, but it
works.

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