Office 2007 - Word Options Customise

[Paul Gauci]

In Word Options Customise can one still edit icons as was possible in
previous MS Word versions? I have discovered that I need to use commands
frequiently (in the quick access toolbar) which look exactly the same. I find
this confusing and time-wasting.

Also, is it possible for one to create more tabs in the ribbon? or add more
commands in a tab?

In Office XP and 2003 I used the Tools Templates and Customise command
quite extensively in order to gain time. In 2007, I am still exploring how I
can exploit the equivalent of these two most useful tools.

 

[Jay Freedman]

In Word Options Customise can one still edit icons as was possible in
previous MS Word versions? I have discovered that I need to use commands
frequiently (in the quick access toolbar) which look exactly the same. I find
this confusing and time-wasting.

Also, is it possible for one to create more tabs in the ribbon? or add more
commands in a tab?

In Office XP and 2003 I used the Tools Templates and Customise command
quite extensively in order to gain time. In 2007, I am still exploring how I
can exploit the equivalent of these two most useful tools.

The icons for built-in commands are not changeable, and there is no
icon editor as there was in previous versions. IMHO, this stinks.

However, you can choose from a gallery of 181 icons for the button of
a macro. This leads to the (stupid!) workaround that you can write a
macro that just issues a built-in command, and then you can put that
macro on the toolbar with one of the icons from the gallery. It still
isn't as good as being able to recolor or redraw an icon or make one
from scratch, but it's better than nothing.

It is possible to add tabs to the ribbon, and you can also add new
groups to existing tabs (the built-in groups can't be changed). There
are a couple of utilities, reviewed at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CustomizeRibbon.htm, that make
that job easier.

 

[Paul Gauci]

Jay

Thanks a lot for your advice. I agree with you that it is most unfortunate
that the edit-icons capability has not been retained. It was such an
excellent simple-yet-very-time-saving devise.

Paul

 

[Paul Gauci]

Thanks a lot Jay

I visited http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CustomizeRibbon.htm and
bought the Ribbon Cutomiser add-in that they advice users to invest in. It
looks good - but I still think that MS Word 2007 should have improved on what
used to be efficient time-saving features in MS Word.