It's now been about 5 months since my office upgraded to Office 2003
and I lost my treasured Office Shortcut bar. I then spent hours and
hours on the web, searching for an alternative and I probably read
every post out there on the subject. Since 2 of the options were
unavailable (3rd party product and installing Office 2003 but keeping
the shortcut bar) I settled on making a customized Window Toolbar. It
didn't take me long to build one that was very user-friendly and
extremely flexible. It was great until a month ago.
Since then, my customized toolbars are constantly covered up by
Internet Explorer windows (I always have multiple IE windows open at
the same time) and often by Outlook, Word and Excel windows. This has
happened in the past but it's usually only a temporary inconvenience
since I know how to get Windows to remember the window size.
Or I used to be able to do this. But not this time. I have read every
post I could find on resizing windows and getting Windows to remember
the size and position so that my toolbars aren't covered. I have
closed all windows but one, I have stretched, maximized, minimized,
closed with Close +shift, Close+Ctrl stretched, closed with Close+, and
tried free shareware (the "maximize window size" programs always cover
the toolbars since they really work at maximizing the windows).
Sometimes the window size is stable for awhile, but not for long. I
spend my days ready to click on one of my shortcuts only to find I
can't see them and then play the guessing game of which window is
covering the toolbar this time.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Or do I rejoin the chorus "Bring back
the Office Shortcut Bar!"
XP's layout is designed to minimize use of Desktop Icons. Microsoft
could have avoided this "Learned Tendency" by creating a Downloads
folder and not defaulted to Desktop years ago. I would either include
the Office icons on the Quick Launch Bar or maybe create a New QL
toolbar. It would appear on a single click as a vertical pop up addition.
Not too inconvenient and avoids Windows size/placement issues.
"jcp370" <jcp370@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> It's now been about 5 months since my office upgraded to Office 2003
> and I lost my treasured Office Shortcut bar. I then spent hours and
> hours on the web, searching for an alternative and I probably read
> every post out there on the subject. Since 2 of the options were
> unavailable (3rd party product and installing Office 2003 but keeping
> the shortcut bar) I settled on making a customized Window Toolbar. It
> didn't take me long to build one that was very user-friendly and
> extremely flexible. It was great until a month ago.
>
> Since then, my customized toolbars are constantly covered up by
> Internet Explorer windows (I always have multiple IE windows open at
> the same time) and often by Outlook, Word and Excel windows. This has
> happened in the past but it's usually only a temporary inconvenience
> since I know how to get Windows to remember the window size.
>
> Or I used to be able to do this. But not this time. I have read every
> post I could find on resizing windows and getting Windows to remember
> the size and position so that my toolbars aren't covered. I have
> closed all windows but one, I have stretched, maximized, minimized,
> closed with Close +shift, Close+Ctrl stretched, closed with Close+, and
> tried free shareware (the "maximize window size" programs always cover
> the toolbars since they really work at maximizing the windows).
> Sometimes the window size is stable for awhile, but not for long. I
> spend my days ready to click on one of my shortcuts only to find I
> can't see them and then play the guessing game of which window is
> covering the toolbar this time.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions? Or do I rejoin the chorus "Bring back
> the Office Shortcut Bar!"
>
