Bring back the Shortcut Bar to Office 2003 & 2007

[Michael_R]

Just upgraded to Office 2003, and surprise... no shortcut bar. After reading
all the posts/blogs/comments/summaries/suggestions... here are my thoughts.
You could add all the shortcuts to the quick launch toolbar.. but isn't it
already small enough? A typical employee will usually have multiple programs
opened at the same time which may include: email, word, excel, some ERP or
POS app, and a few browser windows, so now I have to fill it up with some
more ICONS?? Great!

So another alternative is to create a new toolbar and dock it somewhere with
an auto-hide.. this seems plausible until you try to minimize or close out a
window without the toolbar getting in the way. Yet another alternative,
install the OSB from Office XP.. yeah it worked after some fiddling..but
Office 2007 is short coming.. so will it still work?

To sum it all up, if you don't like it, uncheck the little box to not
install it, but overall the functionality and the placement of the shortcut
bar far beats the alternatives.

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[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

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After furious head scratching, Michael_R asked:

| Just upgraded to Office 2003, and surprise... no shortcut bar. After
| reading all the posts/blogs/comments/summaries/suggestions... here
| are my thoughts. You could add all the shortcuts to the quick launch
| toolbar.. but isn't it already small enough? A typical employee will
| usually have multiple programs opened at the same time which may
| include: email, word, excel, some ERP or POS app, and a few browser
| windows, so now I have to fill it up with some more ICONS?? Great!
|
| So another alternative is to create a new toolbar and dock it
| somewhere with an auto-hide.. this seems plausible until you try to
| minimize or close out a window without the toolbar getting in the
| way. Yet another alternative, install the OSB from Office XP.. yeah
| it worked after some fiddling..but Office 2007 is short coming.. so
| will it still work?
|
| To sum it all up, if you don't like it, uncheck the little box to not
| install it, but overall the functionality and the placement of the
| shortcut bar far beats the alternatives.
|
| ----------------
| This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
| suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click
| the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the
| button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft
| Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane.
|
|
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...-8d5798276a49&dg=microsoft.public.office.misc