How to integrate toolbars in word or excel

[Lottie]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)

I want to integrate some toolbars (eg standard or formatting) in a word or excel doc as you can do with Office 2008 & Leopard or any PC (rather than have them 'floating' above or on the side). I think I used to have it but I cannot do it anylonger. The only 'inserted' items I have are 'Doc Elements, Quick tables, etc'

It's an issue that Mac staff cannot solve and they believe that maybe it's because I have Tiger and not Leopard.

We tried to reset toolbars, to drag the toolbar into the word doc, etc but so far no luck. any suggestions?

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I want to integrate some toolbars (eg standard or formatting) in a word
or excel doc as you can do with Office 2008 & Leopard or any PC (rather
than have them 'floating' above or on the side). I think I used to have
it but I cannot do it anylonger. The only 'inserted' items I have are
'Doc Elements, Quick tables, etc'

It's an issue that Mac staff cannot solve and they believe that maybe
it's because I have Tiger and not Leopard.

It's not a Tiger vs. Leopard issue.
Office 2008 is different in this respect than Office 2004. It has two
sorts of toolbars.
- The main one, docked on the top of the document.
You can add or remove buttons in it, but you can't add a "toolbar"
underneath as you had been able to in 2004. You can't use custom icons
on buttons there either.
- the additional ones: they are fully customizable but always floating.

Corentin

 

[CyberTaz]

Additional to Corentin's reply: the items you referred to by name are
components of a feature called the Elements Gallery. That Gallery cannot be
modified or customized - only collapsed or expanded.

Also, if you go to View> Toolbars notice the separator line between the
listing for Tables & Borders and AutoText. Those above the separator can be
Docked or UnDocked [except for Standard which can only be Docked]. Those
below the separator - including any custom toolbars - cannot be Docked.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[vk]

Hi,

I am running an office 2004 ( well actually i had a 2008 which i had to give up coz it doesnt have the data analysis)..my question is can i integrate the toolbar options like format etc in word so that they appear by default as a part of the document unlike a separate window. Each time i have to edit something i have to bring them up and its very annoying that they don't size up to the word document width.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Not in 2004.

 

[CyberTaz]

Daiya pretty much summed it up , but further to that: Even if the
toolbars could be anchored within the window their size isn't determined by
the window size. The height of a toolbar is determined by the fixed height
of the buttons & controls (which can't be altered), and their length is
determined by the number & width of the controls on the bar.

That said, I'm not sure what you're actually describing as a problem. When
floating, the toolbars stay where you put them regardless of window size or
position, and they can also be docked directly beneath the Menu Bar, the
bottom of the screen, or vertically on either side. Also, they remain
displayed unless you turn them off. I don't understand what you mean by
"bring them up" each time you have to edit.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac