Floating toolbar

[Steve]

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?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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]

Maybe my short stubbies aren't as short as I thought! <g>

Terry

 

[Rojo Habe]

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.

 

[Terry Farrell]

That's a distinct possibility. 'Dumbed down to the lowest common
denominator!'

Terry

 

[Steve]

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]

See http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm for a possible
workaround.

Terry