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curious QAT behavior
In earlier versions of Word, when your document was narrower than
usual (for instance with documents open side by side for comparison), and icons that no longer fit on the toolbars were in the down-arrow at the right, when you used one of those, it replaced another icon in the visible part of the toolbar. But with the QAT in 2007, such buttons simply stay inside the runover bin, no matter how often you use them. Isn't that odd? |
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There are two small dots on the far right of the QAT. Hover your
mouse over the dots and you see "More Controls" in the pop-out tip box. Left click and hold down on the mouse button and you see all icons on the QAT. Cheryl On Dec 14, 6:33*am, grammatim wrote: In earlier versions of Word, when your document was narrower than usual (for instance with documents open side by side for comparison), and icons that no longer fit on the toolbars were in the down-arrow at the right, when you used one of those, it replaced another icon in the visible part of the toolbar. But with the QAT in 2007, such buttons simply stay inside the runover bin, no matter how often you use them. Isn't that odd? |
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On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 06:33:25 -0800 (PST), grammatim
wrote: In earlier versions of Word, when your document was narrower than usual (for instance with documents open side by side for comparison), and icons that no longer fit on the toolbars were in the down-arrow at the right, when you used one of those, it replaced another icon in the visible part of the toolbar. But with the QAT in 2007, such buttons simply stay inside the runover bin, no matter how often you use them. Isn't that odd? I think that's by design. One of the things Microsoft learned (sometimes the hard way, as in the God-awful "personalized menus" in previous Office versions) is that people don't understand menus and buttons that change by themselves on the basis of usage. A major tenet of the Office 2007 design is that nothing ever moves unless the user tells it to -- that's one reason there is so little customization ability. If you find that you've added a button to the QAT and you're using it frequently, go back into the Customize dialog, select that button in the right-hand list, and click the up arrow button to the right of the list to move the button up toward the beginning. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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The behavior you describe for previous versions was the case only if you had
adaptive menus enabled, I believe. The QAT is not adaptive. The whole idea of the Ribbon was to be consistent--everything always in the same place (which is why it was made so difficult for users to modify it), and this extends to the QAT as well. You can rearrange buttons on the QAT to move your most frequently used ones toward the left end. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message ... In earlier versions of Word, when your document was narrower than usual (for instance with documents open side by side for comparison), and icons that no longer fit on the toolbars were in the down-arrow at the right, when you used one of those, it replaced another icon in the visible part of the toolbar. But with the QAT in 2007, such buttons simply stay inside the runover bin, no matter how often you use them. Isn't that odd? |
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I didn't consciously enable adaptive menus ... but usually I don't use
half-width windows, and my QAT buttons are arranged in a logical order and so that confusable ones (an awful lot of them are a white square with some tiny image inside) generally aren't side by side. On Dec 14, 10:47*am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The behavior you describe for previous versions was the case only if you had adaptive menus enabled, I believe. The QAT is not adaptive. The whole idea of the Ribbon was to be consistent--everything always in the same place (which is why it was made so difficult for users to modify it), and this extends to the QAT as well. You can rearrange buttons on the QAT to move your most frequently used ones toward the left end. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message ... In earlier versions of Word, when your document was narrower than usual (for instance with documents open side by side for comparison), and icons that no longer fit on the toolbars were in the down-arrow at the right, when you used one of those, it replaced another icon in the visible part of the toolbar. But with the QAT in 2007, such buttons simply stay inside the runover bin, no matter how often you use them. Isn't that odd?- |
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Adaptive menus were enabled by default in Word 2000 and above.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message ... I didn't consciously enable adaptive menus ... but usually I don't use half-width windows, and my QAT buttons are arranged in a logical order and so that confusable ones (an awful lot of them are a white square with some tiny image inside) generally aren't side by side. On Dec 14, 10:47 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The behavior you describe for previous versions was the case only if you had adaptive menus enabled, I believe. The QAT is not adaptive. The whole idea of the Ribbon was to be consistent--everything always in the same place (which is why it was made so difficult for users to modify it), and this extends to the QAT as well. You can rearrange buttons on the QAT to move your most frequently used ones toward the left end. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message ... In earlier versions of Word, when your document was narrower than usual (for instance with documents open side by side for comparison), and icons that no longer fit on the toolbars were in the down-arrow at the right, when you used one of those, it replaced another icon in the visible part of the toolbar. But with the QAT in 2007, such buttons simply stay inside the runover bin, no matter how often you use them. Isn't that odd?- |
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