Office 2003 Questions

[Barry Watzman]

After 3 years, I finally had to reinstall Windows and with it Office,
replacing Office 2000 with 2003 (Students & teacher's edition -- my wife
is a public school teacher).

I note with great chagrin that the "Office Shortcut Bar" does not appear
to be present in Office 2003?

Is this correct?

Is it possible to install the Office 2000 Shortcut Bar and use it with
Office 2003?

Or is there a downloadeable Shortcut bar for 2003 that's not on the CD?

I have a ton of questions about outlook 2003, but I want to spend some
more time with it before plowing into those.

Thanks

 

[Eric Lawrence [MSFT]]

I note with great chagrin that the "Office Shortcut Bar" does not appear

to be present in Office 2003?

Is this correct?

Yes, it was removed.

Is it possible to install the Office 2000 Shortcut Bar and use it with
Office 2003?

You can do this with the OfficeXP shortcut bar, but I don't know about the
2000 one.

Or is there a downloadeable Shortcut bar for 2003 that's not on the CD?

Not from Microsoft, but there are some great replacement suggestions from
Office MVP Bob Buckland.

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...VZO5wyvDHA.1740%40TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl&rnum=6


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[ladyfromnorth]

I had the same problem. Thanx.

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[MikeG]

The Office Toolbar has been discontinued. The reason is simple. Windows XP has built-in configurable toolbars that do the same thing!

From my own personal experience the Office toolbar was an unneccesary performance drain on the computer as it was a separate program running in the background taking up resources and cpu cycles unneccessarily.

If you're using Windows XP, right click on the task bar and select "Toolbars" and then make sure the "Quick Launch" setting is ticked. Then right-click drag shortcuts from the All Programs menu to the Quick Launch toolbar, release the mouse button and select "Copy Here".

If you want to then move this Quick Launch toolbar to some other place on your screen, just drag it to wherever you want it.

Mike

 

[Barry Watzman]

Sorry, I want the Office Shortcut Bar back.

The bars from both Office 2000 and Office XP do work if installed.

Does anyone know how to install JUST the shortcut bars without having to
do a full Office Install (obviously, you can deselect everything except
the shortcut bars, but it's still gross overkill as a way of installing
just the shortcut bar).

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

You will have to deselect everything and then under Office Tools, select
only the OSB to install - in my experience, it will take about 40 mbs to
install so it is much lighter than the full office installation.

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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Barry Watzman
asked:

| Sorry, I want the Office Shortcut Bar back.
|
| The bars from both Office 2000 and Office XP do work if installed.
|
| Does anyone know how to install JUST the shortcut bars without having
| to
| do a full Office Install (obviously, you can deselect everything
| except
| the shortcut bars, but it's still gross overkill as a way of
| installing
| just the shortcut bar).
|
|
| MikeG wrote:
|| The Office Toolbar has been discontinued. The reason is simple.
|| Windows XP has built-in configurable toolbars that do the same
|| thing!
||
|| From my own personal experience the Office toolbar was an
|| unneccesary performance drain on the computer as it was a separate
|| program running in the background taking up resources and cpu cycles
|| unneccessarily.
||
|| If you're using Windows XP, right click on the task bar and select
|| "Toolbars" and then make sure the "Quick Launch" setting is ticked.
|| Then right-click drag shortcuts from the All Programs menu to the
|| Quick Launch toolbar, release the mouse button and select "Copy
|| Here".
||
|| If you want to then move this Quick Launch toolbar to some other
|| place on your screen, just drag it to wherever you want it.
||
|| Mike