Office shortcut bar

[Laki Balaji]

I installed office but the msoffice short cut bar which I
used to have is missing.

 

[George Moldova [MCP, MVP]]

did you select it when you needed to choose components? Which version of
Office do you run?

 

[M Skabialka]

The shortcut bar is the greatest thing since sliced bread; mine has:

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access97 and Access 2000, MS DOS prompt, control
panel, printer, Internet Explorer, Outlook, File Explorer, Screen saver, Net
Watcher, Notepad, Wordpad, Paint, an ftp program, Image Editor (and others).
This all fits in a small space at the top right of my screen, ready for use
without closing any windows, or hitting the horrible Start, Programs......
etc etc

If I put that much in the Quick Launch tool bar I wouldn't be able to see
the text on any of my open program windows on the task bar!

Mich

 

[PWB]

I have found an easier way than the shortcut bar. I used to use it a lot but
what I do now is right click on the shortcut of the program, choose
properties, put the cursor in the window that says 'shortcut key then press
the shortcut key I want for that particular program I.a. ALT + F12 = my Word
program in office , you can also do this with all other programs you have as
well as those in office, my mouse now has become more or less obsolete. Mind
I don't know if this works in all O/S/S . I have XP but the windows 98
machine I also have I've tried it on but the window with 'shortcut key' is
greyed out.

 

[M Skabialka]

I use keyboard shortcuts in all of the Office programs, so don't want to
have to memorize a dozen more to open a program where I can use one click of
the mouse button.

To each his own!

 

[Andrew]

You do realise you can drag the quicklaunch bar around
right?
It will dock on the sides of the desktop or float where
you leave it. You can also create other toolbars as well.

I have a folder called Toolbars on my root drive then a
subfolder called Office containing links to Access, Excel,
Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, New Office Document, Open
Office Document.
Then another folder called Programs containing links to
Acrobat, Word, Excel, VB6, HotMetalPro, Frontpage Express,
IE5, Mozilla, Avant, Opera, Windows Explorer, Crimson
Editor, Notepad, Calculator, Screensaver, A:\, Show
Desktop, Media Player, 3 of my own programs and RealOne.

You can change the size of the icons if you want, autohide,
always on top etc etc. Everything the shortcut bar can do.

Still think the shortcut bar is the best thing since
sliced bread??

//Andrew

 

[M Skabialka]

Yes! How many clicks to you have to do to open Excel?
With me it is one; click on the Excel icon on the toolbar.
With you, it's open Explorer or click on the quicklaunch bar, navigate to
the folder with Office or navigate to the folder with Programs in it, then
click on Excel.... that's just like using the Start - Programs menu...

BUT, I am not saying my way is better, just that I happen to like it
personally.