How to get custom toolbar to dock?

[Bill Weylock]

Having learned that only custom toolbars would import from 2004 and that my
customized ³Formatting² toolbar would not import, I made a toolbar called
WeyBar with all my pet command on it: Keep with next Para, Default font for
style, update style to fit selected paragraph, and a couple of others.

Problem is that the toolbar floats annoyingly and gets in my way when I
switch back and forth between two or more documents.

Is there any way to make it dock?

I guess I just thought of a workaround. I can keep the custom toolbar, but
drag the various commands to the Formatting toolbar? Will that work?


Best,

Bill
Imac 2.8Ghz -10.5.1
Office 2008/2003 - Windows XP Pro SP2

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Hi Bill,

It¹ll work, but then you¹re stuck with the same old problem: Built-in
toolbars can¹t be transferred and will be lost if the Normal template
corrupts and you have to create a new Normal.

And, no, you can¹t dock a custom toolbar. (Go to Help>Send Feeback and ask
MSFT for this functionality.)

If it were important to me to be able to dock a custom toolbar, here¹s what
I would do:

Customize a built-in toolbar (like Formatting). Take a screen shot of it so
that if I lose it, re-customizing won¹t be too difficult. Make a bunch of
backup copies of my Normal template in case the current one corrupts.

Dontcha love workarounds ?

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[John McGhie]

Hi Bill:

Bloody annoying, isn't it! And I am not sure that it's a bug either.

Well, OK, yes I AM sure it is a bug, but I am not sure that Microsoft thinks
so. Not yet... I will "suggest" this to them

However, I have found that you can drag a custom toolbar over the top of the
standard toolbar area. If it's not too big, it will stay there, and it will
remain there when you re-open Word.

I have mine sitting just to the right of my Standard toolbar

Cheers

Having learned that only custom toolbars would import from 2004 and that my
customized ³Formatting² toolbar would not import, I made a toolbar called
WeyBar with all my pet command on it: Keep with next Para, Default font for
style, update style to fit selected paragraph, and a couple of others.

Problem is that the toolbar floats annoyingly and gets in my way when I
switch back and forth between two or more documents.

Is there any way to make it dock?

I guess I just thought of a workaround. I can keep the custom toolbar, but
drag the various commands to the Formatting toolbar? Will that work?


Best,

Bill
Imac 2.8Ghz -10.5.1
Office 2008/2003 - Windows XP Pro SP2

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John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, Australia
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Problem is that the toolbar floats annoyingly and gets in my way when
I switch back and forth between two or more documents.

It shouldn't be getting in the way. I am using my custom toolbar here
and it sits nicely right under the main menu bar and the documents
appear below it, just as in Word 2004. Try floating it around until it
sinks into a sweet spot and the documents leap out of the way--I think
that should fix it.

 

[Bill Weylock]

John -


I actually found a way to do what I want and not lose things later. Of
course I am not all that big on toolbars since I lke to do as much as
possible with keyboard commands. If you use them a lot, this probably is not
adequate.

I fixed up my custom toolbar with the commands I will hate having to
replace.

Then with Customize open I Option-dragged them to the Formatting toolbar.
Presto. I have both now.


Best,


- Bill

Hi Bill:

Bloody annoying, isn't it! And I am not sure that it's a bug either.

Well, OK, yes I AM sure it is a bug, but I am not sure that Microsoft thinks
so. Not yet... I will "suggest" this to them

However, I have found that you can drag a custom toolbar over the top of the
standard toolbar area. If it's not too big, it will stay there, and it will
remain there when you re-open Word.

I have mine sitting just to the right of my Standard toolbar

Cheers

Best,

Bill
Imac 2.8Ghz -10.5.1
Office 2008/2003 - Windows XP Pro SP2

 

[Bill Weylock]

Thanks, Beth. I couldn¹t get mine to do anything but hover with that little
red dot mocking me... Mocking me, do you hear???

Anyway, found a good workaround for my purposes. Thanks again!


Best,


- Bill

Hi Bill,

It¹ll work, but then you¹re stuck with the same old problem: Built-in
toolbars can¹t be transferred and will be lost if the Normal template corrupts
and you have to create a new Normal.

And, no, you can¹t dock a custom toolbar. (Go to Help>Send Feeback and ask
MSFT for this functionality.)

If it were important to me to be able to dock a custom toolbar, here¹s what I
would do:

Customize a built-in toolbar (like Formatting). Take a screen shot of it so
that if I lose it, re-customizing won¹t be too difficult. Make a bunch of
backup copies of my Normal template in case the current one corrupts.

Dontcha love workarounds ?

Best,

Bill
Imac 2.8Ghz -10.5.1
Office 2008/2003 - Windows XP Pro SP2

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Bill:

And you kept a backup of your Normal.dotm template??

That particular stunt is very likely to produce Normal template corruption
when you least can afford it.

Take a copy of the thing, and save it under a different name ‹ then you can
just switch it in whenever the one in use goes bang

Cheers

John -


I actually found a way to do what I want and not lose things later. Of
course I am not all that big on toolbars since I lke to do as much as
possible with keyboard commands. If you use them a lot, this probably is not
adequate.

I fixed up my custom toolbar with the commands I will hate having to
replace.

Then with Customize open I Option-dragged them to the Formatting toolbar.
Presto. I have both now.


Best,


- Bill




Best,

Bill
Imac 2.8Ghz -10.5.1
Office 2008/2003 - Windows XP Pro SP2

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Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/

Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, Australia
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]