Word for mac 2016 quick access toolbar

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Tell us about your experience with our site. FrankCerny Created on May 3, I recently had an automatic update to Office and on some of my Word documents no longer have the top bar with save, undo, etc. What happened? Figure 2. My customized template for Word , containing my styles, customized Ribbon, a Styles Toolbar, and a Macros Toolbar. I would copy it rather than move it, so that you have a backup and so you can still use it in Word Figure 3.

The same Word template as in Figure 1, opened in Word Customized Ribbon commands are also not carried over and will need to be recreated. Figure 4. Select the Quick Access Toolbar tab and, using the left and right arrows in the center, choose commands listed on the left to add them to the Quick Access Toolbar. Monochromatic icons representing these commands will appear along the top of the Word window.

You can choose to show or hide certain Tabs by checking them on or off, and you can create your own Tabs in the Ribbon as well. To create a new Tab or new group, simply click the plus sign at the bottom of the list of Tabs. Click the gear icon to rename the new Tab or group it would make more sense if when you created a new Tab or group, Word automatically asked you to name it, but alas, it does not work this way. Once created, simply select commands from the list on the left and click the right arrow in the center to add them to your new Tab or group.

Figure 5. Note that it includes my custom Macros as well. And while you can switch Tabs with a keyboard shortcut on Windows, so far I have found no way to do so for the macOS version of Word Figure 6. Slowly but surely, Microsoft is improving Word for Mac in a valiant effort to both make it work like Word , but also feel like Word for Windows. Hopefully, Microsoft will continue to improve platform compatibility while maintaining all the customization we had in Word When you press that button, a second row of icons may appear.

If that does not hold all of the icons in your QAT, the second row can be scrolled right and left when active. If you use the default file as your storage location and use both Word and , they use the same file and Word likes to scramble the icons. It does not do this if you store the toolbar modifications in a separate template. I have not noticed this with Word and If you have modifications stored in multiple files they will be loaded onto the toolbar in groups by file.

Those in the default file will be on the far left, followed by those in other files according to the alphabetical order of the holding Add-In files. If you use multiple files to hold icons, the separator character can be especially helpful in marking groups of icons on the toolbar. Again, if both Word and are active on the same computer, use of Word can scramble the order of icons in the default file Word.

I've noticed this when Word is used to modify the QAT. I do not know whether Word does this. If in the above example, you also had icons D, R, and N stored in a document template named ATemplate. The icons get added to the right end of the toolbar without regard to the name of the containing document template. That is, if an icon is added to a document's attached template, it will appear on the far right end of the QAT, behind those stored in global templates.

Any stored in the document, itself, will display at the end. I do not recommend this because it stores your modification in the general file rather than in a specific customization template. Nevertheless, if you are just doing it for yourself, it works. This will copy both the command and the related icon to the QAT. Again, it will store it in the general store for QAT customizations. This is especially true if you are talking about customized commands that are already in a template like macros.

You want to store those commands in the same template that holds your other customizations. To do this, you must have that template open for editing on your screen. See Modifying Text and Icons above.

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Once you have the Customize the Quick Access Toolbar dialog open, you can select any available ribbon tabs and copy commands from that tab onto the QAT attached to the open template. The screenshot above is for a custom tab. Note that this is storing the modifications in the file that holds the custom tab. The QAT icons will remain active and available. If, instead of just right-clicking on the Ribbon, you right-click on a particular command or button on the Ribbon, you get an option to Add that Command to the QAT.

The dialog below is from Word with a custom Ribbon tab. The option to Customize the Ribbon If you choose to Add to the Quick Access Toolbar the command will be placed in the next available spot and stored in the general QAT customizations. If you choose Customize the Quick Access Toolbar, you will have the ability to position the command you are adding and choose where to store the customizations. You can easily add a group or gallery to the QAT if it is already on a Ribbon tab.

The QAT since Word has always been a single row with the ability to show one more row with a mouse click at the end. However, how much it will hold has diminished since Word Here is a comparison with the same QAT. Everything fits on one row in Word and in Word in mouse mode. Othewise, it is wrapped. Word introduced touch mode to spread ribbon buttons and QAT icons. Even in Mouse Mode, though, the icons are larger and there is not room for as many.

Word - also added the AutoSave button as nearly mandatory, taking more real estate. In Word room for only 27 when in touch mode! If you feel that the mouse mode at least should go back to Word size and spacing, you can vote and comment on UserVoice. It does not appear that modifications to the QAT on the Mac can be assigned to specific documents or templates as they can in Windows. I do not know what happens on the Mac if you open a document that has a customized QAT created in Windows.

I suspect that it will work, at least with Word's built in commands. The actual QAT is a single line, cut here for display purposes. Many of the "tooltips" are shown.

The "QAT help" inverted exclamation point opens a document about many of the modifications and their sources. This QAT is generated from at least 5 different global templates. Only the first two icons are in the default storage file.

The containing files have documentation about what each icon does. Here is a macro-free template with both Ribbon and QAT modification. The QAT modifications were made first through the interface.

Then those changes were tweaked in XML. The code is given in the template. As you may be able to tell, this page is a work in progress. As I learn more, I'll share it here, time allowing. Last modified Tuesday, January 29,