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A better office toolbar The Shortcut bar that comes with Office is a convenient way to launch applications, record appointments and start other tasks. However, for me the Shortcut bar is useless and constitutes a waste of Windows resources. How can I tap the advantages of the Shortcut bar but save on resources? Here are two tricks that will work with the Office 97 and 2000 Shortcut bar. The first trick is best if you use only a few of the Shortcut bar's icons. Open the folder containing your Shortcut bar icons - it will probably be c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Shortcut Bar\Office. Then drag the icons for the shortcuts that you regularly use to the Taskbar's Quick Launch toolbar. For easy access to the Shortcut bar's icons, right-click the Taskbar and select Toolbars, New Toolbar. In the New Toolbar dialog box, navigate to c:\Program Files\MicrosoftOffice\Office\Shortcut Bar\Office (or whichever folder the icons are in) and click ok. This creates a toolbar on your Taskbar. To regain screen space lost to the toolbar, drag its left edge until nothing is visible except its title (Office) and the button with the greater-than symbol. Click the chevron to obtain a pop-up menu of everything in the Shortcut bar. Now you don't need the Shortcut bar, remove it by double-clicking the colourful box in its upper-left corner. Then in the resulting dialog box click No.
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