Office 2007 Ribbon Bar

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MAL

Allow an Office 2007 user to revert their ribbon bar to the old 2003 toolbar
view to allow for better work environment until such time as they have become
acclaimated to the new design/interface.

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Bernard Liengme

And pray tell how they will achieve this nirvana state if they continue to
use the old interface? Osmosis?
best wishes
 
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darkrats

If they won't have an option for the old toolbar, then maybe they could have
an option to resize the whole thing. The main complaint I hear is that it
takes up to much real estate. If you could shrink it about 25% to about the
same size as the toolbars in previous Office versions, I'd be a happy man!



Patrick Schmid said:
That has been asked for a lot, but it won't happen.

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Allow an Office 2007 user to revert their ribbon bar to the old 2003
toolbar
view to allow for better work environment until such time as they have
become
acclaimated to the new design/interface.

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MAL

----------------
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suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the
"I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and
then
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Bob Buckland ?:-\)

Hi darkrats,

You can minimize the ribbon to a single line when not using it (Ctrl+F1 or double clicking on a tab) and according to Microsoft's
designers (http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh ) the ribbon is said to be about the same size as the old menus and toolbars, just visually
larger appearing because of the icon sizes.

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If they won't have an option for the old toolbar, then maybe they could have
an option to resize the whole thing. The main complaint I hear is that it
takes up to much real estate. If you could shrink it about 25% to about the
same size as the toolbars in previous Office versions, I'd be a happy man! >>
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Bob Buckland ?:)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
 
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Patrick Schmid [MVP]

Double-click a tab or use CTRL-F1. Then it'll minimize and you can use
the tabs as sort of menus. Double-click again or use CTRL-F1 to revert
out of that mode.
The real estate issue is actually subjective. 2007 uses less space in
the status area of the window and more on the top. The real estate
available for your document is about the same as in 2003, but it just
looks more due to it all being used on the top.

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
RibbonCustomizer Add-In: http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribboncustomizer
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed


If they won't have an option for the old toolbar, then maybe they could have
an option to resize the whole thing. The main complaint I hear is that it
takes up to much real estate. If you could shrink it about 25% to about the
same size as the toolbars in previous Office versions, I'd be a happy man!



Patrick Schmid said:
That has been asked for a lot, but it won't happen.

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
RibbonCustomizer Add-In: http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribboncustomizer
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed

Allow an Office 2007 user to revert their ribbon bar to the old 2003
toolbar
view to allow for better work environment until such time as they have
become
acclaimated to the new design/interface.

----
MAL

----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the
"I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and
then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...-8db6f933dfde&dg=microsoft.public.office.misc
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darkrats

I don't suppose there's any way to reduce the size of the toolbar icons
then? That would be a very nice tweak to know about.
 

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