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by oaktreemellon 2 views

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WindowsNT; Office97. How do I configure/setup the Office (97) application shortcut bar? This particular bar is NOT "drag & drop." It appears in upper right of screen & usually only consists of icons for a few MS programs (Word, XL, PowerPt, File Mgr, for example).

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by syscokid

I too have Windows NT 4.0 and Office 97. You should be able to drag and drop icons from your desktop. You can't drag them off, however.

You need to right-click in the small rectangular space at the top of the bar and click on Customize. Go tothe Buttons tab and you can delete buttons here. You can also add buttons from here.

by oaktreemellon

THANKS, but I'm afraid this doesn't help. To be clear, the application "toolbar" to which I'm referring is currently GONE from desktop, and I want to restore it. I'm not speaking about the standard Office Toolbar or the Windows taskbar; what I'm looking to restore are essentially a small row of MS Office buttons that you'd only see in upper right of screen.

by skitzizzy

Hi,

What you've described IS the Office toolbar. You may be looking at another view of it though (Desktop, Applications etc).

You can drag it around the desktop by clicking on the blue part at the left of your bar, and moving it to one of the4 edges.

You can change the toolbar you are viewing by clicking on the little boxes above or below the icons.

To restore the office task bar to the desktop , go to:-

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\ and run the file

"Microsoft OfficeShortcut Bar.lnk".

To customise it, follow the first posters instructions.

I hope this is what you mean.

Regards,

Andy

by oaktreemellon

THANKS - YES, you're correct in that I am after a the Office toolbar, just a view of it w/ which I wasn't too familiar. To resolve, I had to: R-click tool bar>Customize>View Tab>click "Auto Fit into Title Bar area">click OK

by rcom

Depending on your installation the shortcut to the link may not be located in the same place as mentioned here.

Do a search for the shortcut. Bring up your search function type in "microsoft office shortcut bar.lnk" when the file is found hightlight it and press the right mouse button and select copy.

Now go to Start, Settings, Taskbar Menu select the advanced tab, then advanced again. This will bring up a explorer view of the startup menu. Open the programs folder go to startup folder and paste the shortcut there.

This will work for Office 2000, not sure for 97

Start, Settings, Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs.
Click your installation of Microsoft Office, then click Change.

The setup wizard starts.
Click Add or Remove Features, and then click Next.
Expand Office Tools.
Click the symbol next to Microsoft Office Shortcut Bar, and then click Run from My Computer.
Click Update, and then click OK.

by abewalker

I am not sure if your talking about the whole bar or just the icons on the bar. When installing office 97 the shortcut bar doesn't display the word,excel.powerpoint icons by defualt. Right click on the little red,blue,yellow,green area of the shortcut bar and click customize. There will be a tab that says buttons. Here you can go down the list and add Icons to the bar by checking the box next to the icon. I am not sure if this is what your asking hope it helps.

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