Greeting from "old" Europe!
I feel the same.
Nevertheless I've found a loophole in MS "Shut up folks, I think for you"
policy. With word 2007, I use an old <normal.dot> from word 2003 and,
Miracle! all my nice little personized icons appear under the <complements>
tag. [I translate from French into English. It can be different, but you've
got the idea.]
I did not try anything with Excel so far.
Hope this helps.
Tell me if it works for you.
JL
"Wayne4Js" <Wayne4Js@xxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de
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> OK, I give up!!! How do I create a new toolbar? How do I edit the
> Toolbar
> Command Buttons (Icons?)? How do I create and add an Autocorrect (AC)
> Command Button to an Excel Toolbar???
>
> NOW the Complaints:
>
> I HATE the ribbons, period? I LOVED the nice, neat, useful, and tiny
> toolbars I created and edited in the 2003 programs and this 'RIBBON' thing
> is
> the most obnoxious thing ever !! I REALLY fell bad for those laptop dudes
> and dudettes, especially the 15" (or smaller) screens. I have a nice,
> new,
> big 19" and I find the useless and extravagant space requirements for the
> "Ribbon" (who came up with that one, anyway?) EXTREMELY ANNOYING.
>
> I used to have three to six shortened, "CUSTOMER"-ized toolbars arranged
> in
> 2 to 3 rows and made up of the commands I NEED and/or WANTED and they used
> up
> the same or less space than this stupid Ribbon!!! OH, and that's another
> thing, I could center them for easy access!!! When created a Macro and
> placed it in a toolbar a generic icon would be displayed but I could, and
> did, copy, paste, edit them so I could tell at a glance what command was
> being represented!!!
>
> I didn't care for many of the icons in the 2003 Word and Excel and I could
> EASILY edit them to my liking - as in something that made sense. I could
> and
> did, create different toolbars that I could easily customize, open or
> close
> depending on the type af task I was performing, and I REALLY don't like
> many
> of the Microsoft default buttons. I created numerous Macros that I added
> to
> the toolbar(s) because there were no commands available for certain tasks
> I
> wanted to shortcut.
>
> NOW, HA, I'm stuck with what Microsoft thinks I need, with what Microsoft
> thinks we ALL need.
>
> AS you can tell, I'm PO'd about this. I have spent more hours trying to
> figure a way to get what I want than it did to edit a create my old
> toolbars
> and the more hours I spend researching and trying to figure it out the
> more
> frustrating that time is and the more it takes away from creating and
> editing!!! HELL, why do you thing I am posting this at 5.00 AM - I can't
> justify spending any more time on it at work or taking time away from my
> family so here I am!! I started researching this AGAIN around midnight
> and
> now, another 5 hours burned up with ZILCHO TO SHOW FOR IT!!
>
> I am not at all impressed with VISTA, period, never mind the inability to
> CUSTOMerIZE the program toolbars I use EVERY day. It is about the
> customer,
> isn't it? My experience so far is that 2007 programs and VISTA are not
> an
> upgrade - they're more like a DOWNGRADE. OH, and I would go back to the
> 2003
> programs but, for some odd reason, one can't very easily find a new
> computer
> with just plain old windows.
>
> Anyway, enough of the wine - I need some cheese. And any help - NO,
> specific answers that a non-tech like me cn understand - would be
> appreciated, very much!!!
>
> ps: Man, I never write stuff like this, sorry! I am just so ticked off,
> so
> frustrated with the blocks at every turn to set up and customize
> efficiency
> into my new HP laptop I just can't seem to help myself. I doubt anyone
> cares
> but at least its therapeutic - well, so 'they' say!!