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COPYRIGHT 2005 VNU Business Media Europe
Byline: Tim Nott.
In this month's Word processing column (see page 138), we mentioned the demise of the Microsoft Office Shortcut Toolbar and promised you full details of how to create a standard Windows Toolbar with the same functionality.
This is straightforward enough in terms of providing shortcuts to the programs themselves, but requires some arcane knowledge to get 'New Office Document' or 'New Mail Message'. I'll show you some nifty shortcut and toolbar techniques, so even if you're not an Office user, you should find some useful content.
Right-click on the Windows Taskbar and choose Toolbars, New Toolbar. Navigate to where you want the toolbar stored - I went to Documents and Settings \Tim \Application Data \Microsoft \Office and clicked the Make New Folder button, giving it the name 'Office Shortcut Bar'. Doing it this way means that it is stored on a per-user basis along with other custom settings such as Autocorrect Entries.
This toolbar should now appear on the Taskbar, so right-click on it and choose Open Folder, and the still-empty toolbar folder will open. Next, in a separate Explorer window, navigate to the folder containing the Office program files, which on a standard installation will be C:\ Program Files\Microsoft Office \Office 11. You can now drag shortcuts to the executables - winword.exe, excel.exe, outlook.exe, and so on - into the new toolbar folder. Make sure you create shortcuts rather than move or copy...
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