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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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NOT SOLVED...
Just out of the blue back to big spacing... no microsoft update and no language pack installed...
Too bad
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
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.
And C) the ability for QAT to wrap onto a second+ row so we don't have to use up all the screen real estate with those damned ribbons
I agree with ImjinMan.