Oddities in "Customise Toolbars" - 2003

[PJay]

I've got a variety of Office 2003 programs installed. For convienience I set
about customising my Word 2003 toolbar to have a "Task Pane" button to toggle
the task pane on and off. Easy, just select "Customise" from the context
menu, click on "View" in the commands tabs (Task Pane is in the View menu)
and drag "Task Pane" to the toolbar.

When I came to do the same for Excel 2003 I found that "Task Pane" does not
appear in Excel's list of commands (whilst customising toolbars) for the View
menu, although it does appear in the View menu itself, also odd is the fact
that whilst Word has an option to show "All Commands" whilst customising
toolbars Excel does not. Interestingly PowerPoint doesn't have the "Task
Pane" in its View command or the "All Commands" option when customising
toolbars nor does Publisher 2003, OneNote has both, Visio does have "Task
Pane" in the View commands but no "All Commands" option, OneNote, like Word,
has both.

Can I get all my toolbars to behave the same way?

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

I'm using Office 2007 now, so I can't see what's what in Office 2003's
customize settings now. However, as I recall, in Office 2003, Ctrl+F1
toggled the task pane on/off--in all Office 2003 applications (except for
Outlook). So, if all else fails, if you can train yourself to use Ctrl+F1,
it should do the trick in terms of getting all Office 2003 (except Outlook)
applications to behave the same way.

If/when you move to Office 2007, however, Ctrl+F1 toggles the ribbon on/off,
the task panes are no longer all integrated into a single pane (multiple
panes that function independently).

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi PJay,

Word has the more extensive Tools=>Customize section of the Office core apps with more choices, including keyboard customization.
In Excel 2003 you can add a Taskpane toggle by using
Tools=>Customize=>Commands and while that dialog is open

1. Go, in your menu to 'View'

2. Hold the ctrl key and drag a copy of the 'Task Pane' command to a toolbar.

3. While the customize dialog is still open, right click on the dragged task pane (text) command, set to 'default style' and select
an icon or paste a picture from the clipboard as an icon.

4. Close the customize dialog.


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I've got a variety of Office 2003 programs installed. For convienience I set
about customising my Word 2003 toolbar to have a "Task Pane" button to toggle
the task pane on and off. Easy, just select "Customise" from the context
menu, click on "View" in the commands tabs (Task Pane is in the View menu)
and drag "Task Pane" to the toolbar.

When I came to do the same for Excel 2003 I found that "Task Pane" does not
appear in Excel's list of commands (whilst customising toolbars) for the View
menu, although it does appear in the View menu itself, also odd is the fact
that whilst Word has an option to show "All Commands" whilst customising
toolbars Excel does not. Interestingly PowerPoint doesn't have the "Task
Pane" in its View command or the "All Commands" option when customising
toolbars nor does Publisher 2003, OneNote has both, Visio does have "Task
Pane" in the View commands but no "All Commands" option, OneNote, like Word,
has both.

Can I get all my toolbars to behave the same way? >>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

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