Multiple lines on the Quick Access Toolbar in Office 2007?

[Henry Gasko]

Is there a way to get multiple lines in the Quick Access Toolbar, so that I
can add all the most used commands and some macros to it (I used 3 lines in
Word 2003 and 4 in Excel 2003). I can't be the only person who uses more than
a dozen or so commands regularly and would like one-click access to them.

It would also be nice to be able to make some of the icons smaller (e.g. the
Paste icon in the Home menu, or the Calendar screen in Outlook). The only
reason for making them so big seems to be that Microsoft are catering for a
Baby Boomers with failing eyesight (of which I am one, but I have a good pair
of glasses for computer work).

I realise that RibbonX is available to customize the Ribbon, but what I
really want to do is hide the Ribbon and not customize it.

Henry

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

Hi Henry,

You posted the same question on my blog. Here is my response from there:
multiple lines in the QAT - can't do. QAT is one line with up to 40
commands and that's it.
You can't change the individual icon size, because Microsoft groups
cannot be touched. You'd simply have to recreate the group the way you
wanted it and then hide the original one.
Here is what I suggest you do though: Get my RibbonCustomizer add-in:
http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribboncustomizer/
Use the 30 days trial to do this. Create a new tab and put that tab
before the Home tab (important step!). Add one or more new groups to
that tab. Then you can populate those groups with individual commands.
The commands you add will be displayed in columns with three rows. It
will first fill a column with the three rows, then start the next one.
So essentially you sort of get three toolbars this way. That should get
you far along the way of what you want to do.
Give it a shot and let me know if it works for you.

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
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