Need toolbars back

[kevs]

Can't seem to get my old toolbars back, now I've installed 2004-office.
Tried few things. Any help appreciated.
OS 10.3.4
Office 2004

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Can't seem to get my old toolbars back, now I've installed 2004-office.
Tried few things. Any help appreciated.
OS 10.3.4
Office 2004

Which toolbars are your "old" ones? What "few things" have you tried?

 

[kevs]

Which toolbars are your "old" ones? What "few things" have you tried?

JE:
The toolbars are the standard and formatting, they have been customized to
the way I like them. I have deleted both toolbars and settings and
re-inserted archived ones into preferences. Still-- with Excel 2004 default
toolbars come up. Thanks.

OS 10.3.4
Office 2004

 

[JE McGimpsey]

The toolbars are the standard and formatting, they have been customized to
the way I like them. I have deleted both toolbars and settings and
re-inserted archived ones into preferences. Still-- with Excel 2004 default
toolbars come up. Thanks.

Built-in toolbars differ from version to version. I'm not sure how you
"re-inserted archived ones into preferences", but I doubt that just
renaming the toolbars preferences would work.

You could, of course, re-customize your standard and formatting
toolbars...

What I recommend to make toolbars version independent is to attach
custom toolbars (not built-in) to an add-in (Tools/Customize/Toolbars,
select your toolbar and click attach). Then put the add-in in the

Microsoft Office N:Office:Startup:Excel

folder (where N is the version). You can hide and disable the built-in
toolbars and use your own.

I actually create my toolbars via code in an add-in, so that they can't
be corrupted and are always the same each time I start up (even if I
customize them during an XL session).

This isn't foolproof - some Button ID's were changed in XL2004 so that
my code now has to have conditional compilation, but it's a minor
inconvenience.

 

[kevs]

Oh boy, that was tough to understand. Let me clarify:

In excel there are just two toolbars which I have customized and put lots
buttons on. Same with with word. With word 2004 one of them was missing. So
I went to view, toolbars and saw that one was not checked. I checked it and
all is ok in Word.

But this did not work for Excel. So I went in preferences. I saw two toolbar
pref. files. I deleted both and inserted a recently archived one. Excel X
brings up everything fine. Excel 2004 still brings up default toolbars. I
did not rename anything. So question remains: why can't I get my old
toolbars up??

Now what you are saying is to hide the toolbars (in excel 2004) and make my
own, instead of doing what I have done which is use Excels toolbars adding
to them -- is that correct?

Ok so I went to view, toolbars, customize, and made a new toolbar. But this
newly created does not come up even though it is checked. What comes up is
this weird little blank white square about 1/2 inbox with red close button
on its upper left. I have no idea what it is.

Now thing about going to tools, customize toolbar after I have just gone to
view, customize toolbar -- well I'm lost there.

Built-in toolbars differ from version to version. I'm not sure how you
"re-inserted archived ones into preferences", but I doubt that just renaming
the toolbars preferences would work.

You could, of course, re-customize your standard and formatting toolbars...

What I recommend to make toolbars version independent is to attach custom
toolbars (not built-in) to an add-in (Tools/Customize/Toolbars, select your
toolbar and click attach). Then put the add-in in the

Microsoft Office N:Office:Startup:Excel

folder (where N is the version). You can hide and disable the built-in
toolbars and use your own.

I actually create my toolbars via code in an add-in, so that they can't be
corrupted and are always the same each time I start up (even if I customize
them during an XL session).

This isn't foolproof - some Button ID's were changed in XL2004 so that my code
now has to have conditional compilation, but it's a minor inconvenience.

OS 10.3.4
Office 2004

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Once in OS 9 I was in your same situation....The new installation of Excel
would not pick up my custom toolbar even with the correct prefs file in the
correct place. So I doubleclicked on the toolbar settings file while in the
preferences folder, and somehow that triggered it back to using my
customized toolbars. I strongly doubt this will work, seeing as how OS X is
a whole nother operating system, but I would feel bad if I did not mention
it as a possibility.

DM

 

[kevs]

Once in OS 9 I was in your same situation....The new installation of Excel
would not pick up my custom toolbar even with the correct prefs file in the
correct place. So I doubleclicked on the toolbar settings file while in the
preferences folder, and somehow that triggered it back to using my customized
toolbars. I strongly doubt this will work, seeing as how OS X is a whole
nother operating system, but I would feel bad if I did not mention it as a
possibility.

DM

That shockingly seemed to work. I clicked on the old toolbars 10, I wonder
if I should just now delete toolbars 11.

OS 10.3.4
Office 2004

 

[Bob Greenblatt]

That shockingly seemed to work. I clicked on the old toolbars 10, I wonder
if I should just now delete toolbars 11.

OS 10.3.4
Office 2004

No, don't delete toolbars(11) it now contains your custom too bars.

 

[kevs]

No, don't delete toolbars(11) it now contains your custom too bars.

Thanks Bob!
OS 10.3.4
Office 2004