Office 2003 Shortcut Bar?

[Michael R. Copeland]

During the many years I used Office 97, I came to appreciate (depend
on!) the shortcut bar that came with it. It allowed me to easily access
other desktop applications while within others. I've now installed
Office 2003 (the entire suite) on my XP system, and it doesn't have a
shortcut bar or anything like it, afaics. Does anyone know if it does -
and how to activate it?
If not, is there a shareware/freeware utility that does the same sort
of thing - persist on the desktop so selected applications can be loaded
while running others? TIA

 

[R. McCarty]

You can use the "Quick Launch Bar" instead, It can be positioned
on any axis on the screen you want. Right Click Start, Left Click
Properties, Taskbar and check "Show Quick Launch" Apply, OK.
You can drag your Office icons onto the bar and it will have basically
the same functionality as the old Office bar.

 

[Star Fleet Admiral Q]

Did you check with the experts in the Office, Work, Excel Newsgroups?
They are most likely to know better than those of us in a Windows
newsgroup.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

During the many years I used Office 97, I came to appreciate
(depend on!) the shortcut bar that came with it. It allowed me to
easily access other desktop applications while within others. I've
now installed Office 2003 (the entire suite) on my XP system, and it
doesn't have a shortcut bar or anything like it, afaics. Does anyone
know if it does - and how to activate it?
If not, is there a shareware/freeware utility that does the same
sort of thing - persist on the desktop so selected applications can
be loaded while running others? TIA

The thing was removed in Office 2003.

Please use either the QuickLaunch bar (right-click on your Windows taskbar)
or create a new toolbar there to contain what you wish.

 

[Jim Byrd]

Hi Michael - Do you still have O97 installed? You can have both
simultaneously (except only one copy of Outlook, so use O2003's). If so,
you can quite nicely use the Shortcut bar from 97 still. Just put a
shortcut into your Startup folder pointing to OSA9 in the 97 Folder. In my
case for example (using O2k instead of 97 and with my Win2kSP4 OS in the E:
partition where O2k is still installed) it looks like this: E:\Program
Files\Microsoft Office\Office\OSA9.EXE while my O2k3 is installed on D:,
and is what I normally use. FWIW, I also put a shortcut on my Start menu as
well, so that I can start it manually (if I have had to close it for some
reason) without re-booting.


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Please respond in the same thread.
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP



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