Retrieve from old office bar

[Howard Brazee]

I just upgraded to Office 2003 and lost my office bar. I'm trying to re-create
my shortcuts, but some had parms and such that I am finding hard to come up
with. Is it possible that they are accessible somewhere still on my computer?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Howard,

Some of the information for the Office Shorcut Bar (OSB)
was in the registry
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Shortcut Bar
some in an Office folder, such as
D:\Program Files\Microsoft Office2K\Office\Shortcut Bar\Office


========
I just upgraded to Office 2003 and lost my office bar. I'm trying to re-create
my shortcuts, but some had parms and such that I am finding hard to come up
with. Is it possible that they are accessible somewhere still on my computer? >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Howard Brazee]

Found it. There is folder with my old office bar shortcuts in it (deep within
Office). I created a new folder C:\Shortcuts, copied these into it, and
pointed my task bar to it.

Not nearly as convenient as having all of my most used shortcuts along my right
side of my screen (and out of the way of my task bar), but what can I do?
Microsoft doesn't want us to do it anymore for some unknown reason.

As long as they won't let us have an office bar anymore, maybe they could give
us back something - allow us to clean up our desktop by removing the Office, My
Computer, & My Network Places shortcuts form my desktop. I don't want anything
on my desktop, I do want an Office Bar. I lose both ways because MS doesn't
like me to have these choices.

 

[Bob I]

You DO know that you can r-click Taskbar and "make" a new toolbar. After
loading it with your "shortcuts", drag it off the taskbar and dock it at
the side of the screen. Clean the Desktop by r-clickin desktop,
Properties, Desktop, Customize desktop, and uncheck that which you don't
want to show. But, Please stop whining!

 

[Howard Brazee]

You DO know that you can r-click Taskbar and "make" a new toolbar. After
loading it with your "shortcuts",

I had done that much but not the following.

drag it off the taskbar and dock it at the side of the screen.

I had to minimize this window, but it worked. Great!

Clean the Desktop by r-clickin desktop,
Properties, Desktop, Customize desktop, and uncheck that which you don't
want to show.

I'm not finding this at work with my W2K machine. I'll try it at home with my
WXP machine tonight.

But, Please stop whining!

Sorry. It took me a while to recover some important shortcuts that were only
in my office bar.

 

[Bob I]

I'm not finding this at work with my W2K machine. I'll try it at home with my
WXP machine tonight.

This part is in XP not W2k, sorry.