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

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And just give us the darn ribbon icons on the QAT.  How hard can that be?  I despise the arrogance of the touchie crew destroying what was a fine interface.  You realize that us desktop users comprise the majority of users, no?

It appears that the softie, Analiese, has not been following this question.  She posted a notice a couple of days ago that MS has created an update to partially fix the problem.  They have returned the spacing back to 2013 levels.  Better, but not great.  So do a manual update of Office to see if you can pick up this fix:

Fix Released

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2016-word/word-2016-styles-pane-corrupted/be2f03ff-c127-45e2-89b9-ce4806ca37ee?page=5&msgId=500f9529-88aa-4868-8202-3588966e3e44

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The Styles pane issue has been fixed in update 6366.2056, which is rolling out now to Office 365 consumer subscribers.

<EDIT: Oops, wrong discussion, that was about the style pane.  But anyway, there was also a second update released for the QAT problem, so doing a manual update is still the fix for this problem to. Sorry, I don't have a version number.>

If you don't see it yet, you can force the update by following these steps:

1. Open any Office application and choose File > Account. (If you're using Outlook, choose File > Office Account.)
2. Under Product Information, choose Update Options> Update Now.

If you're still experiencing issues after this update, please let us know (best to start a new thread).

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Even if you try to force the update as Anneliese described, you may not get it yet.

To users, be aware that the fix is being rolled out slowly, "in a controlled fashion".  So, if you don't get it the first time you try to "update now", wait a day (or at least several hours) then try again until you do get it.

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It seems that they have a "vision" that touch screens are going to take over the world. 

While I agree that may happen, I think it is still at least 2 computer generations out. Until then, I agree that this "vision" they are chasing is a phantom,  sign of tunnel vision, not foresight.

Hello All, 

Some of you have expressed reservations about updates.  Turns out there is a great website that has an ongoing thread about the latest updates as they are rolled out.

  "Quite a lot of updates released this week, including some very important ones, sorry i couldn't post this earlier but have been very busy with many matters this week. I installed the updates listed below, as usual a mix of updates for windows itself, for IE, for flash player in IE and for ms office programs. They all installed without fine, though they took a while to download and install, the "installation" of the KB890830 update was especially slow (it's often the slowest to install of the updates released in any given month but this time it was particularly noticably slow) but none of them had any problems...." It goes on and on.  

I posted previously how you can configure updates not to install automatically.  I will try to find that post and repost here. 

And just give us the darn ribbon icons on the QAT.  How hard can that be?  I despise the arrogance of the touchie crew destroying what was a fine interface.  You realize that us desktop users comprise the majority of users, no?

I concur completely.  The QAT icons need to lose weight and take up the same amount of space as the icons in the ribbon, or else the QAT loses a substantial amount of its usefulness.

Good documentation Sandra.

I was just wondering if you have "Touch Mode" turned on.  Playing with my touch mode on my Word 2013 I now "messed up" my installation too. 

This is not the same problem but probably loosely related.

I turned on touch mode, there was no apparent change, but a new icon showed up. It gives 3 options: Autohide ribbon, Show tabs, Show ribbon and tabs.  Being monkey curios, I clicked on Show ribbon and tabs, it suddenly expanded by buttons, presumably into touch mode.   Now I have lost 3 buttons to the dreaded More Controls. 

Since then:

• I have turned touch mode on and off.
• I have tried all three "new" show/hide options.

My QAT remains in expanded/touch mode. <sigh>

Does anyone know a registry key I can "hack" to fix this stupid problem.