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Floating toolbar
Recently upgraded from Word 2000
to Word 2007. I write novels and I like to save my document after every little change I make. So even if I go and add a comma somewhere it is my habit to click the Save Button immediately afterwards. I used to be able to put a floating toolbar with a Save button just to the right of my text so that I didn't have to move my attention (and the cursor) up to the toolbar default Save button. Is there anything comperable available in 2007? |
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Ctrl + S will work.
-- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Steve" wrote in message ... Recently upgraded from Word 2000 to Word 2007. I write novels and I like to save my document after every little change I make. So even if I go and add a comma somewhere it is my habit to click the Save Button immediately afterwards. I used to be able to put a floating toolbar with a Save button just to the right of my text so that I didn't have to move my attention (and the cursor) up to the toolbar default Save button. Is there anything comperable available in 2007? |
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I swap the default shortcuts assigned to Save and SaveAs so that Save is
just F12 (and SaveAs is Shift+F12). Just a single key click is far, far easier than using the mouse and marginally easier that Ctrl+S. I never did understand why Save and SaveAs were assigned shortcuts that way around, because if you open a new document and execute a simple Save, it opens the SaveAs dialog anyway because you have to assign a name. So a single click F12 to Save makes much more sense. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Steve" wrote in message ... Recently upgraded from Word 2000 to Word 2007. I write novels and I like to save my document after every little change I make. So even if I go and add a comma somewhere it is my habit to click the Save Button immediately afterwards. I used to be able to put a floating toolbar with a Save button just to the right of my text so that I didn't have to move my attention (and the cursor) up to the toolbar default Save button. Is there anything comperable available in 2007? |
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De gustibus non est disputandum and all that, but I would never consider
reaching way up to the top of the keyboard and stabbing for F12 easier than pressing Ctrl+S with (most of) my fingers on the home row! -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Terry Farrell" wrote in message news I swap the default shortcuts assigned to Save and SaveAs so that Save is just F12 (and SaveAs is Shift+F12). Just a single key click is far, far easier than using the mouse and marginally easier that Ctrl+S. I never did understand why Save and SaveAs were assigned shortcuts that way around, because if you open a new document and execute a simple Save, it opens the SaveAs dialog anyway because you have to assign a name. So a single click F12 to Save makes much more sense. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Steve" wrote in message ... Recently upgraded from Word 2000 to Word 2007. I write novels and I like to save my document after every little change I make. So even if I go and add a comma somewhere it is my habit to click the Save Button immediately afterwards. I used to be able to put a floating toolbar with a Save button just to the right of my text so that I didn't have to move my attention (and the cursor) up to the toolbar default Save button. Is there anything comperable available in 2007? |
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Maybe my short stubbies aren't as short as I thought! g
Terry "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... De gustibus non est disputandum and all that, but I would never consider reaching way up to the top of the keyboard and stabbing for F12 easier than pressing Ctrl+S with (most of) my fingers on the home row! -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Terry Farrell" wrote in message news I swap the default shortcuts assigned to Save and SaveAs so that Save is just F12 (and SaveAs is Shift+F12). Just a single key click is far, far easier than using the mouse and marginally easier that Ctrl+S. I never did understand why Save and SaveAs were assigned shortcuts that way around, because if you open a new document and execute a simple Save, it opens the SaveAs dialog anyway because you have to assign a name. So a single click F12 to Save makes much more sense. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Steve" wrote in message ... Recently upgraded from Word 2000 to Word 2007. I write novels and I like to save my document after every little change I make. So even if I go and add a comma somewhere it is my habit to click the Save Button immediately afterwards. I used to be able to put a floating toolbar with a Save button just to the right of my text so that I didn't have to move my attention (and the cursor) up to the toolbar default Save button. Is there anything comperable available in 2007? |
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"Terry Farrell" wrote in message news I never did understand why Save and SaveAs were assigned shortcuts that way around, because if you open a new document and execute a simple Save, it opens the SaveAs dialog anyway because you have to assign a name. So a single click F12 to Save makes much more sense. I think it's designed that way to make it slightly harder to overwrite a document by accident. If you accidentally hit the F12 key you're presented with a dialog which you can just cancel. It's far more unlikely (although not impossible, I'll admit) that you'll accidentally hit S or F12 whilst simultaneously holding down the Shift key. |
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That's a distinct possibility. 'Dumbed down to the lowest common
denominator!' Terry "Rojo Habe" wrote in message ... "Terry Farrell" wrote in message news I never did understand why Save and SaveAs were assigned shortcuts that way around, because if you open a new document and execute a simple Save, it opens the SaveAs dialog anyway because you have to assign a name. So a single click F12 to Save makes much more sense. I think it's designed that way to make it slightly harder to overwrite a document by accident. If you accidentally hit the F12 key you're presented with a dialog which you can just cancel. It's far more unlikely (although not impossible, I'll admit) that you'll accidentally hit S or F12 whilst simultaneously holding down the Shift key. |
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May I take it, then, that there is no way of getting a floating toolbar in
the 2007 version? I sure miss that. I had a couple of other handy buttons on the toolbar, also. "Terry Farrell" wrote: That's a distinct possibility. 'Dumbed down to the lowest common denominator!' Terry "Rojo Habe" wrote in message ... "Terry Farrell" wrote in message news I never did understand why Save and SaveAs were assigned shortcuts that way around, because if you open a new document and execute a simple Save, it opens the SaveAs dialog anyway because you have to assign a name. So a single click F12 to Save makes much more sense. I think it's designed that way to make it slightly harder to overwrite a document by accident. If you accidentally hit the F12 key you're presented with a dialog which you can just cancel. It's far more unlikely (although not impossible, I'll admit) that you'll accidentally hit S or F12 whilst simultaneously holding down the Shift key. |
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See http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm for a possible
workaround. Terry "Steve" wrote in message ... May I take it, then, that there is no way of getting a floating toolbar in the 2007 version? I sure miss that. I had a couple of other handy buttons on the toolbar, also. "Terry Farrell" wrote: That's a distinct possibility. 'Dumbed down to the lowest common denominator!' Terry "Rojo Habe" wrote in message ... "Terry Farrell" wrote in message news I never did understand why Save and SaveAs were assigned shortcuts that way around, because if you open a new document and execute a simple Save, it opens the SaveAs dialog anyway because you have to assign a name. So a single click F12 to Save makes much more sense. I think it's designed that way to make it slightly harder to overwrite a document by accident. If you accidentally hit the F12 key you're presented with a dialog which you can just cancel. It's far more unlikely (although not impossible, I'll admit) that you'll accidentally hit S or F12 whilst simultaneously holding down the Shift key. |
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