Office tool bar

[Don Gensler]

I just upgraded to Office 2003. In office 97 and 2000 I
had a toolbar that listed all icons that I could
autohide. The feature disappeared with my install. Has
this feature been removed?

 

[John Ski]

Subject: Office tool bar

From: "Don Gensler" (e-mail address removed)
Date: 10/8/2004 12:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id: <[email protected]>

I just upgraded to Office 2003. In office 97 and 2000 I
had a toolbar that listed all icons that I could
autohide. The feature disappeared with my install. Has
this feature been removed?

Yup, the powers that be at MS decided that you didn't want it. You can install
the OSB from your Office 2000 if you want. Sorry.

Cheers,
John

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
***Arthur C. Clarke***

 

[Brian Kvalheim [MSFT MVP]]

Hi Don Gensler ([email protected]),
in the newsgroups
you posted:

|| I just upgraded to Office 2003. In office 97 and 2000 I
|| had a toolbar that listed all icons that I could
|| autohide. The feature disappeared with my install. Has
|| this feature been removed?

You can do the same thing by using your Quick Launch toolbar down in your
task bar. The OSB was not really even needed. It is duplicating what is
already available in the Windows UI.
--
Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft Publisher MVP
http://www.publishermvps.com
~pay it forward~

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.

 

[John Ski]

You can do the same thing by using your Quick Launch toolbar down in your

task bar. The OSB was not really even needed. It is duplicating what is
already available in the Windows UI.
--
Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft Publisher MVP
http://www.publishermvps.com
~pay it forward~

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.

Your opinion is from the viewpoint of a highly skilled(presumably) user of
Windows and Office and an "MVP", no less. For the average novice user it is
most assuredly NOT the same. It is more difficult for them to both set up and
use. It's been correctly advertised here as a "workaround". If it were the
same we wouldn't have 100s of unskilled users in here begging to have the OSB
back. And I mean no insult by the description "unskilled users." Most would
describe themselves as such, I'm sure. I simply can't understand why MS won't
just put the damn thing back and eliminate all the ill will!

Cheers,
John
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
***Arthur C. Clarke***

 

[Paul Ballou]

John,
There are better alternatives to the office shortcut bar that will do
the same thing and more. I personally like perfect menu for it's
functionality. You can create shortcuts to launch applications, folders,
Create Key Squences to perform menu commands..... I created key sequences to
automatically save documents in specific directories with just a single
click. The program is added to or used as a replacement for right click
menus
http://www.pitrinec.com/pmeindex.htm


http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp
you can send MS a suggestion for return of the OSB here.



--
Paul Ballou
MVP Office
http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx
http://office.microsoft.com/templates
http://office.microsoft.com/home

Control the things you can and Don't Worry about the things you can't
control.

 

[Chris Schatte]

The shortcut bar open, and several applications running in Windows only
serves to drain system resources over a period of working hours...

Chris Schatte

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