Want old style Office 2000 menus and toolbars in Office XP

[googlemike]

In Office XP, is there a way (such as registry key) to activate the old
style menus and toolbars instead of these new, slow white and grey
ones? The old style menus opened faster and, for some strange reason,
don't make me feel as nervous when I see them.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Office XP's menus are much easier to use than then old,
outdated Windows 2000 menus. You'll have to gradually
become acclamimated to using them.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
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| In Office XP, is there a way (such as registry key) to activate the old
| style menus and toolbars instead of these new, slow white and grey
| ones? The old style menus opened faster and, for some strange reason,
| don't make me feel as nervous when I see them.

 

[Greg Ro]

Office XP's menus are much easier to use than then old,
outdated Windows 2000 menus. You'll have to gradually
become acclamimated to using them.

Carey that is not an answer.
In windows xp you can make windows xp look like windows 98se.

Office Xp should be able to do the same thing,

googlemike
The icons are hard to see correct? Depending on size of monitor
You can enlarge the icons. It will look funny. I think it a little
better. I told this to a person who has eye problems.

Greg Ro

 

[Beth Melton]

If it is speed you are after then chances are you simply need to turn
off some animation settings. Go to Tools/Customize and on the Options
tab under "Menu animations" make sure it is set on "System default".
(Note this will use the animation settings for Windows so you'll need
to make sure they are turned off in your Display Properties). While
you are there, if you want to display full menus then turn on "Always
show full menus".

Also check Tools/Options/General and make sure "Provide feedback with
animation" and "Provide feedback with sound" are turned off as well.

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