Quick Access Toolbar Office 2016 Icon Spacing too big

Anonymous
2015-09-23T15:46:47+00:00

I've just downloaded Office 2016 and the first thing I noticed is that the icon spacing on the Quick Access Toolbar has been expanded somewhat ridiculously - there is almost a full icon of space between each icon.  This has pushed many of the useful icons off the screen and rendered it somewhat useless.  I can't find any option for changing the spacing - how can I fix this or, failing that, how can I revert to the previous version of office?  Impacts Word, Powerpoint, Excel, OneNote and Outlook.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-10-30T11:54:04+00:00

    NOT SOLVED...

    Just out of the blue back to big spacing... no microsoft update and no language pack installed...

    Too bad

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-09-24T23:18:26+00:00

    I have the same complaint. I am on a non-touch device. The QAT was set perfectly for the way I work with my most used menu clicks in the QAT. They spanned PowerPoint from Left to right on a wide monitor.

    Now with the 2016 install, they are nearly half what they were before with the extra icons now falling into a pulldown. I find it unacceptable and would rather fall back to Office 365.  Can you tell me how to so that?

    Mickey Mills

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-09-24T16:20:56+00:00

    Yes, I understand your frustration. I encourage you to feedback to the relevant User Voice site(s) - the most effective feedback focuses on what you are trying to do (and, if relevant, how we are getting in your way) rather than jumping right to a suggested solution (although that's valuable as well).

    http://excel.uservoice.com/  for Excel

    http://access.uservoice.com/ for Access

    I understand that you are loading up the QAT so that you can minimize the ribbon (and get more screen for getting your job done) - it would be useful if you can also let us know what you are putting on your QAT...

    Thanks again for the feedback - message received and understood...

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-09-24T11:54:19+00:00

    I have the same issue with Office 2016 and it's rather ridiculous. The very first thing I do is customize the quick access bar in each program, and there simply is not enough room now with the spacing. I'm in the middle of building a database for our business with Access and yesterday took me much longer than it should have, and was a frustrating time, just because of the extra clicks I needed. I've decided to hold off deploying 2016 in our company.

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-09-23T17:57:05+00:00

    Hi Frank - sorry this has impacted the way you work - I've made a few suggestions in the linked thread that might help a bit. I am curious as to the screen resolution/text size you are using and how many icons you've got in your quick access toolbars?

    linked thread: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office\_2016-excel/how-to-reduce-the-size-of-quick-access-toolbar/30470620-4c2d-4c3c-ad35-4b6a3488af57

    ...pc

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