Bring back the Office Shortcut Bar - it is essential!

[Shevy]

I live and die by my Office Shortcut Bar. I put essential documents and
links that I 'toggle' to many times per day. I keep all of the ugly icons
hidden behind my email box and rely on my lovely shortcut bar to the right of
my screen to conduct my work each day. I upgraded Friday and now it's as
though my right arm is missing or I don't have a mouse or something. I've
wasted 2 hours searching for my bar. Please bring it back. The shortcut bar
saves massive time and makes windows functional to me.

 

[Ringwood]

I live and die by my Office Shortcut Bar. I put essential documents and
links that I 'toggle' to many times per day. I keep all of the ugly icons
hidden behind my email box and rely on my lovely shortcut bar to the right
of
my screen to conduct my work each day. I upgraded Friday and now it's as
though my right arm is missing or I don't have a mouse or something. I've
wasted 2 hours searching for my bar. Please bring it back. The shortcut
bar
saves massive time and makes windows functional to me.

Why not re-install the short-cut bar from your previous version?
Why not search this news group for the (many) alternatives?

 

[trayl]

you can do exactly the same thing with the quick launch bar next to the start
button. drag and drop program shortcuts on here or right click on it and go
to advanced to add documents and folders. it works in exactly the same way
as the old shortcut bar did.

 

[Don MI]

Small addition. If you right click on the Taskbar and "Lock the Taskbar" has
check, click on it to unlock the Taskbar. The you can move the Quick Launch
Bar to where you have your Office Shortcut Bar. Once you move the QL, you
can right click on the QL and select Auto-Hide and Always on top as you
could with the Office Shortcut Bar.

Don

 

[Paul Ballou]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;822573
Office Shortcut Bar is not included in Office 2003

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp
you can send MS a suggestion here.

You can install the office SCB from a older version of Office or to
create a Shortcut Tool Bar for Office 2003 using the Windows task Bar.
Create a folder with shortcuts for all office programs. Right Click On
the Task Bar select Toolbars New Toolbar and Navigate to the folder
containing your Office shortcuts and select it, click OK. However if
you drag the toolbar off the Task Bar and then later close after using
the toolbar you will need to recreate it to use again.

There are some other alternatives as well if you search the news group
you will find some of the other alternatives that are offered. I
personally like perfect menu for it's functionality
http://www.pitrinec.com/pmeindex.htm



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control.

 

[John Ski]

Subject: Re: Bring back the Office Shortcut Bar - it is essential!

From: "=?Utf-8?B?dHJheWw=?=" (e-mail address removed)
Date: 11/8/2004 12:24 PM Eastern Standard Time
Message-id: <[email protected]>

you can do exactly the same thing with the quick launch bar next to the start

button. drag and drop program shortcuts on here or right click on it and go
to advanced to add documents and folders. it works in exactly the same way
as the old shortcut bar did.

Yeah sure it does, perhaps as a person such inestimable knowledge you would
like to explain to us idiot know nothings how you have configured your "quick
launch bar" to autofit into the title bar of the active Window! And that's just
the most obvious example of what a pathetic alternative the QLB is. MS never
seems to learn the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" axiom.

Cheers,

John
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
***Arthur C. Clarke***

 

[Don MI]

Yeah sure it does, perhaps as a person such inestimable knowledge you
would
like to explain to us idiot know nothings how you have configured your
"quick
launch bar" to autofit into the title bar of the active Window! And that's
just
the most obvious example of what a pathetic alternative the QLB is. MS
never
seems to learn the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" axiom.

Cheers,

John
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
***Arthur C. Clarke***

The Office Shortcut bar never " autofit into the title bar of the active
Window". If you placed your Office Shortcut bar at the top of your display,
you could configure it to auto-hide when not in use and to open on top of
the active window. If that is what you mean, you can configure the QLB in
the same manner. Once you have positioned the QLB at the top or side of
your display, right click on the QLB and select "Auto Hide" and "Always on
Top".

Don

 

[John Ski]

Subject: Re: Bring back the Office Shortcut Bar - it is essential!

From: " <[email protected]>">"Don MI <>" <[email protected]>
Date: 11/9/2004 4:19 PM Eastern Standard Time
Message-id: <#[email protected]>





The Office Shortcut bar never " autofit into the title bar of the active
Window". If you placed your Office Shortcut bar at the top of your display,
you could configure it to auto-hide when not in use and to open on top of
the active window. If that is what you mean, you can configure the QLB in
the same manner. Once you have positioned the QLB at the top or side of
your display, right click on the QLB and select "Auto Hide" and "Always on
Top".

Don

Don,
Sorry but you're sadly mistaken. My OSB has had "auto-fit into title bar area"
(under customize) checked in my Office 97, Office 2000, and Office 2002(XP) for
many years. And it is sitting in my title bar quite nicely as I type this post!
That function alone makes me angry that MS chose to fix that which was not
broken. Reinstall an OSB and check it out. I'll bet you a six pack of your
favorite alcoholic beverage(unless it's Cristal<G>).

Cheers,
John
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
***Arthur C. Clarke***

 

[L Covey]

Yeah sure it does, perhaps as a person such inestimable knowledge you would
like to explain to us idiot know nothings how you have configured your "quick
launch bar" to autofit into the title bar of the active Window! And that's just
the most obvious example of what a pathetic alternative the QLB is. MS never
seems to learn the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" axiom.

Cheers,

John
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
***Arthur C. Clarke***

Agreed.

The drawing features seem to be more ridiculous, example to draw a
straight line and using the shift key...a large "text box"-like image
appears and distorts and disturbs what I have already created. I know
how to get around it, but can't figure out why they did that.

Also, the clip art and symbols have gotten worse.

LC

 

[Steve Anderson [msft]]

Please see the following link for a response to this suggestion:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...fdbe93-9fe4-44bf-a59f-50c1e38ba6ae&sloc=en-us

Thanks,

-Steve Anderson
PM, Office

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

<Shevy> wrote:


I live and die by my Office Shortcut Bar. I put essential documents and
links that I 'toggle' to many times per day. I keep all of the ugly icons
hidden behind my email box and rely on my lovely shortcut bar to the right of
my screen to conduct my work each day. I upgraded Friday and now it's as
though my right arm is missing or I don't have a mouse or something. I've
wasted 2 hours searching for my bar. Please bring it back. The shortcut bar
saves massive time and makes windows functional to me.

 

[Big Al Pendry]

All well and good, but I have lost the shortcuts and will have to trawl
through my Intranet and C: drive to find them again. A waste of a couple of
otherwise productive hours. Come on, Mr. Gates - ask us before trying to
"improve" our lives!

 

[Bob I]

The cumulative time wasted by others due to shortcut bar issues FAR
outweighs your temporary issue with change over. And it would be wise to
remember Mr. Gates didn't install it on your PC, YOU did.

 

[Big Al]

For the record, I had this version of Office imposed upon me by our IT
department, as I suspect is the case for many users. I was personally quite
happy with the functionality and interface I was used to. Perhaps our IT
administrators should have come up with a solution?

 

[Bob I]

Agreed. Have you asked them? Here, it wasn't used, or missed.