Quick Access Toolbar Office 2016 Icon Spacing too big

Hi Patrick,

Unfortunately, although the link helps to define the problem, ie touch screen for 15% ruining it for 85%, it does not help in any way resolve it.  The last thing I want to do is memorise more shortcuts - the toolbar was great, a simply wonderful tool and it is now useless.  The supersize spacing even makes it difficult to visualize and select from the few icons that can be seen.

I have around 43 shortcuts on my QAT.  Screen Resolution is 1440x900. 

It would seem to me that a company like Microsoft would have learnt by now that the reason they stay ahead of Apple in the software market is because they give consumers choices about how they work and what they see.  I use an Apple computer because of the great hardware and then go straight to virtual Microsoft because I want to do things the way I find most efficient.  Just release an update with an option for a non-touch screen interface - it really is that simple.

YES!!!

QAT Spacing solved!!

Out of the blue, I got a message about the new black theme for Office 2016. And the spacing has been fixed, look.

Hope it will not disappear again...

SOLVED!!

Hello all,

I was so happy when I installed Office 2016, loved it. But I also found it ridiculous that the spacing between QAT commands was so big. I have quite a few commands. Then I found about the mouse/touch mode and it was perfect. All commands with almost no spacing in between, all fit in my screen perfectly. 

But suddenly one day the spacing became too big again... No use to go to mouse mode because I was already there...

So I thought maybe some Office update might have screwed this. And it was like that. I uninstalled Office and made a new clean installation. All good. Of course I disabled Office updates...

But then... I installed a language pack to change the interface language to Spanish (in fact I was also using before before the Indonesian language pack). And after I installed the Spanish language pack it was screwed again.

Seems that there is a problem with latest updates or languages packs or both. Now I have to work in ENglish and no Indonesian proofing but... QAT is right...

Hope this helps

You have to ask yourself, why have high end graphics, when the display of the interface is back to the letter setting ages. Anyway, thoroughly concur. Lost icons due spacing going from 2010 to 2013, and now the double spacing [AND] lack of color, makes me have to look  much harder [gray on darker green, who the heck came up with that brain gas extrusion?], straining, PLUS 12 QAT icons are now on the drop down list, and that is with a workbook name of only 9 characters. Display 1600x900 or something like that. Got suckered in, because testing on a 2600 pixel wide screen did not alert me to this -major- issue! That's not my work machine as the 26" screen width just gives me neck cramps to have to continuously turn head to see what's on the sheet.

Oh yes, without any warning my 2013 Office got removed completely but for Custom UI editor. Also all pinned books were gone and the silly "It seems this is the first time your open Excel". No it is not.

Edit: Meantime, some bigger workbooks caused Excel 2016 to crash repeatedly, even after running a repair, loading the sheet in 2010 and save it, then load it in 2016, still crashing, so uninstalled 2016-64 bit [but not sure about that], installed 2013 - 64 bit again and all is working again. Next time buying an new version I'll think twice. 149 Euro dumped in the MS pit.

I agree, the icon size is totally unacceptable.  Office is work software.  Not happy-go-playtime tablet software.  I have thousands of lines of VBA code, and it was hard enough not filling up the old toolbar with macros and built-in commands.  If the goal here was to make it more difficult to access the complex functionality of Office so that people could focus more on the actual writing, then I'd say this particular change will be a great success. Admittedly, I'm happy with a lot of the other changes (finally a dark background for the interface).  But for the icons I give Microsoft a Microscoff.