The Ribbon v Quick Access Toolbar

[Bill]

Like most of the people who are posting to this forum I nor my colleagues are
lovers of the new ribbon in Office 2007 (Microsoft whatever were you
thinking?), however we think we have a reasonable way of getting around it,
depending on how much functionality you use when in your application. The
Quick access Toolbar is totally customizable and you can add icons onto it
that cover all the commands in the application (we haven't tested going
beyond one line yet but we believe that should either enlarge the toolbar or
provide scroll buttons). You can then ignore having to find your way around
the ribbons (why have they moved commands from where they used to be?) and
simply use the customized toolbar. If you wish you can gain space back by
minimizing the ribbon so it doesn't appear. Shame we have to go through all
this but this is working for us so far - when we need a new command that we
use we simply add it to the Quick Access toolbar.

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

The QAT has a limit of 40 items. To read what else you can do with it,
check http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/10/18/68

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[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Patrick,

Hmmm, my QAT in Word presently has 58 items.

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The QAT has a limit of 40 items. To read what else you can do with it, check http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/10/18/68

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP] >>
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[Henry Gasko]

Is there a way to make the Quick Access Toolbar extend beyond one line on the
screen? I had about 4 rows of buttons Office 2003 (Word and Excel) with all
the frequently used commands plus lots of useful macros. Having only one line
is extremely limiting - a real backward step.

Henry

The QAT has a limit of 40 items. To read what else you can do with it,
check http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/10/18/68

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
RibbonCustomizer Add-In: http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribboncustomizer
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed

Like most of the people who are posting to this forum I nor my colleagues are
lovers of the new ribbon in Office 2007 (Microsoft whatever were you
thinking?), however we think we have a reasonable way of getting around it,
depending on how much functionality you use when in your application. The
Quick access Toolbar is totally customizable and you can add icons onto it
that cover all the commands in the application (we haven't tested going
beyond one line yet but we believe that should either enlarge the toolbar or
provide scroll buttons). You can then ignore having to find your way around
the ribbons (why have they moved commands from where they used to be?) and
simply use the customized toolbar. If you wish you can gain space back by
minimizing the ribbon so it doesn't appear. Shame we have to go through all
this but this is working for us so far - when we need a new command that we
use we simply add it to the Quick Access toolbar.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Henry,

The Quick Access toolbar can accept more entries than appear on the screen, but you'll need to use the dropdown indicator at the end
of the displayed items to see more of the icons, they won't wrap to two rows of full time displays.

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Is there a way to make the Quick Access Toolbar extend beyond one line on the screen? I had about 4 rows of buttons Office 2003
(Word and Excel) with all the frequently used commands plus lots of useful macros. Having only one line is extremely limiting - a
real backward step.

Henry >>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*