How to reduce the size of quick access toolbar icons? (Office 2016)

Anonymous
2015-09-22T22:39:10+00:00

With the update to Office 2016 the Quick Access Toolbar icons were enlarged.

I used to have a filled Quick Access toolbar for Excel and now they do not fit defeating the purpose.

Is there any way to reduce the size of Quick Access Toolbar items?

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Anonymous
2015-11-05T18:00:03+00:00

Folks, our shared UX controls team have been following this thread, 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

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-01-14T00:31:04+00:00

    Hey folks, the spacing should now be back to Office 2013 widths. From the early feedback to the update I can see that some of you are disappointed and were hoping for Office 2010 equivalency. The background to this decision is that our UX controls team looked at the reasons for the 2010 -> 2013 change where we had research showing some difficulty with mouse click accuracy, and thus decided to stick with the 2013 behavior.

    Mtn, interesting feedback on the Cleartype(TM) change and I'll have a chat with the UX Control & Word folks (aka the infinite masters of GUIdom)

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-01-13T21:22:53+00:00

    Between patents and sheer mass of code, I don't see it happening.  Many of us here would die for WordPerfect to come back.  All I can say is that Word 2010 seems to coexist with Office 2016 just fine, so I just don't use Word 2016.  And put up with Word's mysterious ways of relocating graphics when you nudge them. (What a cluster!) Even Powerpoint went downhill, and refuses to read old ppt files without "repairing" them, when it deigns to do so .  But nothing matches Excel so far as I can tell, so that point remains in MS' favor.  

    So I must say you are totally right about the trajectory of progress.  I still wonder where all those boy genius' focus groups that Patrick referred to are.  They sure aren't in any thread about windows I can find.  Never seen a more universally despised company.   Like I said before, if they had to actually compete, it would be a totally different story.  For power users, Apple doesn't count.  Gates should cash/give all of his stock away, and then form a company that does it right.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-01-13T21:07:53+00:00

    Once Office becomes more or less unusable for Desktop users, I wonder where we all go next. Will there be some tech company out there that realizes there is a niche and engineers for it? Hope so.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-01-13T21:04:15+00:00

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