Vista - Word&Excel:Add-Edit Toolbar&Buttons:Autocorrect to Excel Toolbar!!

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!!

On Sat, 10 May 2008 03:12:00 -0700, Wayne4Js
<Wayne4Js@xxxxxx> wrote:
[snip of a lot of unnecessary ranting]

Take your frustration out at:

microsoft.public.excel.misc

or at:

microsoft.public.office.misc

or at:

microsoft.public.word.general

You can always install Office 2003 on Vista.
Gary H
"Nonny" <nonnymoose@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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What's the hells this got to do with Vista.

Why do you not go and flog your crap software some were else.

"Charles Smith" <vamail2@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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unfortunately the thread is not intact so I did not see the original
message.

NIK

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