Quick Access Toolbar Office 2016 Icon Spacing too big

Patrick,

Glad to hear the Microsoft is willing to make these sorely needed changes.

Pretty please add in the "create your own icon" capability from Word'97 era product.  Or at least allow one to attach a bmp file.  I'd be more than happy to just give you my old Word 97 setup, with icons.

And so you don't have to read through all the ideas,

A)  Move the taskbars to the left side and allow them to stack left to right

B)  Allow us to control the spacing  or have a flag that allows one to defeat the touch screen spacing in all cases.

Folks, our shared UX controls team have been following this thread (and others), as well as your requests on UserVoice and are spinning up some work to address your concerns. I can't promise a specific date for getting this work out to you all, but they recognize the impact this has had on those of you who work with customized QAT and are moving very quickly.

When they're done you'll see the improvement arrive as part of the regular updates we send all subscription customers.

Thanks again for the clear feedback, both here and on UserVoice - keep it coming!

Cheers...pc

Having had 100 customized commands in Word 2003, I concur with all the feedback to Microsoft to improve the QAT.  From a technical perspective, ever since Word 2007, the QAT sucked.

EASIEST APPROACH, by far, is to move it to the left side and allow it to wrap.  Of course, this is not supported.  Main advantage on widescreen displays of this approach is that you don't lose valuable vertical space (I draw pictures that are 7" tall and can seldom see the entire page unless I put on my binoculars).

As uninstalling 2013, booting, installing 2016 did not change the other major issue... Excel crashing on some of my bigger workbooks, cannot test, but there's theme's that would make it 'easier on the eyes'.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Change-the-Office-theme-b2098f8a-aac8-4646-9cf0-7c91d1284da6?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

The article has not been updated to indicate if this too applies to Office 2016, except for Outlook 2016? I'll postpone retrying until the matter of the icon spacing and the crashing [appcrash excel.exe] has been addressed.

Edit: This additional article suggests there's something for Office 2016: http://winsupersite.com/office-2016/how-switching-dark-theme-microsoft-office-2016

Absolutely agree. The QAT has become almost unusable with room for far fewer icons and a colour scheme designed to make it illegible.

Big boo boo Microsoft. Time to demonstrate agility in getting this fixed!