Standard toolbar

gogreen · 28 Sep 2010

Is there a way in Office products, Word 2010 and Excel 2010, in particular, to bring up the standard toolbar that I used to have in Office XP? I want to do this to use the My Places bar. Thanks.

Prof Kerfuffle · 28 Sep 2010

You can buy a toolbar converter Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 - Shows Classic Menus and Toolbars of 2003 on Ribbon or why not get Office 2003 if you like Office XP interface. (you can run them side by side)

tapuz · 28 Sep 2010

gogreen, do you mean the toolbar that floated on the desktop ?
if so, you can add the shortcuts to a folder, and add that folder as a new toolbar, on the bar next to the open applications (as in language bar etc..)
or you can try many free programs that offer it, as in "stardock"

gogreen · 28 Sep 2010

So are you guys saying that the My Places bar is not available in Office 2010?

tapuz · 28 Sep 2010

i think they took it out in 2003, but for sure in the 2007 version.
the above are the work arounds.
i saw a while ago a registry hack that allowed you to put it back, but i don't recall where i saw it.

gogreen · 28 Sep 2010

Well, if you can remember where you saw that registry hack, please let me know. Thanks.

Prof Kerfuffle · 29 Sep 2010

tapuz said:

i think they took it out in 2003, but for sure in the 2007 version.
the above are the work arounds.
i saw a while ago a registry hack that allowed you to put it back, but i don't recall where i saw it.

It was on 2003 they remove it in 2007 making it the ribbon menus.

gogreen · 29 Sep 2010

Too bad. The My Places Bar was an excellent time-saver. Now I have to wade through all sorts of file hierarchy to get to where I want to go. Can I customize the ribbon to achieve something similar? Thanks.

Prof Kerfuffle · 29 Sep 2010

Bring Office 2003 Menus Back to 2010 with UBitMenu - How-To Geek

Try that and it may not work because you may have a 64-bit office

gogreen · 29 Sep 2010

Thanks! I'll give it a try.