Ugly toolbar icons in Office 2003

[Cirde]

Hi

I use a Sony 17" LCD monitor at 1280x1024, and the Office toolbar icons
are really ugly, pixelated, quite big (despite being set as "small
icons": the "big" ones are huge!) and a waste of space. I am using Large
Fonts on my display.

Any ideas on fixing that?

Thank you

Edric

 

[Edward]

Right click the desktop. Select Properties/Appearance and check 'Font size'.
Click 'Advanced' and under 'Item' scroll to Icon. You can change things from
there.

Ed

 

[Cirde]

Right click the desktop. Select Properties/Appearance and check 'Font size'.

Click 'Advanced' and under 'Item' scroll to Icon. You can change things from
there.

Thank you for the answer, Ed, I have already done that, but it just
affected desktop icons. The toolbar icons in Office 2003 are not
affected by that. The thing is really disturbing: Office icons are
somehow "fuzzy" and my add-ons icons in toolbar are big (not enormous)
and very pixelated too...

Edric

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

And now you know one reason that Microsoft dropped the Office Toolbar - the
icons are fuzzy, not at all attractive, hard to discern one from the other,
too small, etc.

Use the Quick Launch bar or the jetaudio bar that Bob Buckland posted. Just
don't complain when an unsupported toolbar does not look exactly like what
you want. There ARE reasons that they dropped it in Office 2003.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Due to the Swen virus, all e-mails sent to this account will be deleted
w/out reading.



After searching google.groups.com and finding not answer:
Cirde <[email protected]> asked:
|| Right click the desktop. Select Properties/Appearance and check
|| 'Font size'. Click 'Advanced' and under 'Item' scroll to Icon. You
|| can change things from there.
|||
||| I use a Sony 17" LCD monitor at 1280x1024, and the Office toolbar
||| icons are really ugly, pixelated, quite big (despite being set as
||| "small icons": the "big" ones are huge!) and a waste of space. I am
||| using Large Fonts on my display.
|||
||| Any ideas on fixing that?
|
| Thank you for the answer, Ed, I have already done that, but it just
| affected desktop icons. The toolbar icons in Office 2003 are not
| affected by that. The thing is really disturbing: Office icons are
| somehow "fuzzy" and my add-ons icons in toolbar are big (not enormous)
| and very pixelated too...
|
| Edric

 

[Edward]

Sorry for the misunderstanding,.

In that case, right click the Desktop. Select Properties/Appearance/Advanced
Scroll to Menu and check the size. I use Tahoma 8 (I think it's default)

Otherwise, it is probably a resolution problem. If the above suggestion is
no good, I will try and remember the route to altering definitions.

Ed

 

[Edward]

I take back my last message, Edric. I see it is an issue I have no
experience of.

Mind you, I thought you could customize in Office 2003, even to putting up
your own icons.

Thank goodness for MVPs!!

Best wishes,

Ed

 

[Cirde]

Mind you, I thought you could customize in Office 2003, even to putting up
your own icons.

Thank goodness for MVPs!!

Best wishes,

Ed

Thak you, Ed. What seems quite hard to accept is that people at MS,
despite designing such a great product like Office 2003, had never
tested its GUI on a 17 inch LCD @1280x1024 to see how fuzzy, pixelated
and weird icons become with large fonts. Or worse, found it fine...

C'mon, MS, there should be something to do in the registry that can put
add-ins toolbar buttons back to their original appearances (as in Office
XP)!!!!

Edric