How to Replace Microsoft Office 2007’s Big Ugly Ribbon bar with the old familiar Office 2003 Toolbar
Paisano’s Stupid Office Tricks Series Vol 1 Episode 1One of the most common complaints that I’ve heard about Microsoft Office 2007 is about the big ugly ribbon bar that some GUI genius from Redmond decided was an improvement over the old interface. Its context sensitivity is supposed to make the experience more productive and intuitive but most users don’t like it. In the following 1-minute screencast you will see how to hide the ribbon bar and enable the much smaller and customizable Quick Access Toolbar (new name for the old toolbar).
Watch the PaiCast to see how it’s done in no time at all!
| 1 | Right-Click anywhere on the big Ugly ribbon bar and select Minimize the Ribbon Bar | |||||||||||||
| 2 | Right-Click anywhere on the Menu Bar and select Show Quick Access Tollbar below the Ribbon | |||||||||||||
| 3 | Click on the Customize Quick Access Toolbar dropdown icon (Last item on the toolbar) | |||||||||||||
| 4 | Select More Commands | |||||||||||||
| 5 | Click the dropdown menu for Choose Commands from…. and select All Commands | |||||||||||||
| 6 | Select the command you want on the left and click the add button to add it to your toolbar | |||||||||||||
| 7 | Click OK when completed | |||||||||||||
Paisano…
This is great! A few clicks and the big Ugly ribbon is dead! To think, I nearly spent $20 for some ‘toggle’ thing utility. I’m back to familiar territory. Your short click-thru and pie-cast is a link I’m passing on to colleagues.
All Hail Paisano!
Paisano…
This is great! A few clicks and the big Ugly ribbon is dead! To think, I nearly spent $20 for some ‘toggle’ thing utility. I’m back to familiar territory. Your short click-thru and pie-cast is a link I’m passing on to colleagues.
All Hail Paisano!
20 bucks for a toggle utility? that sounds ridiculous to me… all it takes it to play around with the advanced settings in office 2007 to get rid of it if you must, but I actually find it pretty intuitive and useful… but then again, I do not need to conserve real estates on my desktop since I am running a 17inch wide screen on my sony vaio. I say all hail office 2007 for emulating some of apple’s intuitive look and feel.
20 bucks for a toggle utility? that sounds ridiculous to me… all it takes it to play around with the advanced settings in office 2007 to get rid of it if you must, but I actually find it pretty intuitive and useful… but then again, I do not need to conserve real estates on my desktop since I am running a 17inch wide screen on my sony vaio. I say all hail office 2007 for emulating some of apple’s intuitive look and feel.
Intuitive? We have roughly 25000 people in our department, and about half those are Word users. Only about 10% would be what you would call computer literate. So, about 12000 users who have to be retrained to use the more “intuitive” ribbon bar? Don’t think so.
Intuitive? We have roughly 25000 people in our department, and about half those are Word users. Only about 10% would be what you would call computer literate. So, about 12000 users who have to be retrained to use the more “intuitive” ribbon bar? Don’t think so.