Now drag each command, one by one, from the Standard toolbar to your new toolbar. It will be a very small box and you will have to look for it, but it’s there. Then click the OK button.Ī new, very small toolbar will then appear on the screen.
Click the New button and give the new toolbar a name for example: My Standard. We’re going to make a new toolbar that will behave like the old, dockable, resizable toolbars did. So let’s get started on undoing all this messy garbage they put into the document windows.įirst, go to View > Customize Menus and Toolbars. We still have menus and still have customizable toolbars.
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Incidentally, Windows Office 2007 users are simply screwed in this regard, so thank Apple and MacBU for making and following the Apple user interface guidelines. We can make the interface work the way it’s supposed to (or at least the way you and I think it should).
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Thankfully, for those of us who want a clean look with sensible behavior, the Mac version of Office 2008 lets you customize things. What a waste of screen space! But the look and feel is now consistent (consistently bad IMHO) in more and more applications. The same controls are duplicated over and over in each document. The reason for the change in Office 2008 is to follow the crowd to be trendy, chique and look like web 2.0 applications. I don’t know if they were lazy, incompetent, never thought about it, or what the reason was, but the web browser makers usually fill each document window with browser controls instead of making separate toolbars.īecause web browsers are so popular, Apple and now Microsoft have adopted the same “look and feel” and are wasting lots of screen space with application controls in each document window. However, web browser makers (Netscape, Internet Explorer, etc) never got around to implementing this behavior. Not matter what document was opened, only things relating to the document appeared in the document window.
If you closed a document window, your toolbars remained. In all previous versions of Office, toolbars were at the application level. I think your consternation is a result of Microsoft adopting a new attitude toward toolbars. May I assume that you are referring to Excel 2008 for Macintosh?
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