Changing Orientation Of Toolbar

[JDP]

I am using Microsoft Word X for Mac. I want to change the orientation
of a toolbar (in this particular case, the visual basic toolbar. I
want to rotate it from horizontal to vertical. Moving the toolbar
around the screen and over a document does not change the oreintation.
The toolbar remains horizontal. Any ideas how to do this? Thanks for
your help.
Best, JDP

 

[JE McGimpsey]

I am using Microsoft Word X for Mac. I want to change the orientation
of a toolbar (in this particular case, the visual basic toolbar. I
want to rotate it from horizontal to vertical. Moving the toolbar
around the screen and over a document does not change the oreintation.
The toolbar remains horizontal. Any ideas how to do this? Thanks for
your help.

Are you grabbing the resize handle (lower right corner) and "pulling"
straight down? That works for me.

If that doesn't work, try, with Word closed, renaming your Normal
template, then restarting Word. Can you resize it now?

 

[JDP]

Are you grabbing the resize handle (lower right corner) and "pulling"
straight down? That works for me.

If that doesn't work, try, with Word closed, renaming your Normal
template, then restarting Word. Can you resize it now?

Thank you. I was able to resize the visual basic toolbar by grabbing
the resize handle and pulling it. It did change the toolbar's
orientation (it's now vertical), but left the toolbar somewhat thicker
than another toolbar I use (drawing). In any case, it's an
improvement, and thanks very much for your help. JDP

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Thank you. I was able to resize the visual basic toolbar by grabbing
the resize handle and pulling it. It did change the toolbar's
orientation (it's now vertical), but left the toolbar somewhat thicker
than another toolbar I use (drawing). In any case, it's an
improvement, and thanks very much for your help. JDP

It's thicker because you didn't pull it far enough down. If you do, it will
be as thin as any other vertical toolbar. Try again.

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[JE McGimpsey]

Thank you. I was able to resize the visual basic toolbar by grabbing
the resize handle and pulling it. It did change the toolbar's
orientation (it's now vertical), but left the toolbar somewhat thicker
than another toolbar I use (drawing).

If you're talking about the toolbar itself, XL does something strange
with its built-in toolbars - they're 36% wider when vertical than they
are tall when horizontal. That doesn't happen with my custom toolbars.

If you're talking about the toolbar's title bar, custom toolbar's have
wider title bars than built-in ones. I've complained about that for
almost a year. Perhaps a future update...

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

If you're talking about the toolbar itself, XL does something strange
with its built-in toolbars - they're 36% wider when vertical than they
are tall when horizontal. That doesn't happen with my custom toolbars.

I noticed that Word's toolbars are slightly wider in vertical mode because
icons with a drop-down arrow (font color, etc) have the arrow beside rather
than under them.

In messing about with this, by the way, I managed to reproduce the vanishing
icons problem reported elsewhere. Specifically, in case it helps, I
accidentally locked my toolbar in vertical mode with the corner I needed to
switch it back off the screen. Then when I opened up Tools | Customize to
drag off enough icons to see the corner again, I began to see the vanishing
icons issue. It made me feel just a little less stupid.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

I noticed that Word's toolbars are slightly wider in vertical mode because
icons with a drop-down arrow (font color, etc) have the arrow beside rather
than under them.

Yeah, I thought I had removed the popup menus from the toolbar when I
tested, but I missed one. That's the source of the wider bar.

Thanks for the correction!

 

[JDP]

It's thicker because you didn't pull it far enough down. If you do, it will
be as thin as any other vertical toolbar. Try again.

Thanks, Beth. You were absolutely right. I pulled it down again and it
became as thin as my other vertical toolbar. JDP