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

Funny.  I have a simple 1920 x 1080 Dell laptop, and I get 30 icons.  It was 38 before.  Back in 2010 days, I had about 50, but the android envy misanthropes already took their cut.  Now yours.  

And give us back clear type.  I am about to drop $800 to get the same screen (2560 x 1440) resolution that 2010 gave me. We all rotating our desktop monitors?  What a bunch of clueless fanboys trying to follow android, while having the finest OS and suite in XP and 2003.  I even accepted  the ribbons at 2007.  But this?  

And to add insult to injury, Windows 10 , or Office 2016, wont let me associate docx files with Word 2010 that I installed to get clear type.  Otherwise Word is unreadable on monitor or screen unless 12 pt.  So now I have to file search for the doc instead of clicking on it.  Such pettiness.  If that isn't spite, nothing is. Ever since Vista, nothing that MS has done has made me change my mind.  Except 8 which was great, so long as you used Start8 interface.   Cretins even made folks pay for the features they dropped.  

Why did these things happen?  It is like out a Franz Kafka novel.  But this time, we get to pay dearly for the torture inflicted by the clueless.  Microsoft actually has focus groups to come up with these diabolical punishments?  Supposedly.

Officially the MS policy is that you can't.

Fortunately, there is an unofficial work around you can try:

Roll Back 2016 to 2013 manually by USER! DownGrade - Down Grade - Back out

How do I reinstall Office 2013 after an Office 2016 upgrade?

https://support.office.com/en-US/article/How-do-I-reinstall-Office-2013-after-an-Office-2016-upgrade-a6ca92f4-cbb4-4609-9fdb-f8d3dd6812f3

Alternate Down Grade method - Use 365 Deployment Tool

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2016-outlook/rolling-back-to-2013-from-2016/edda2c54-de95-446f-a306-59c688f15899?page=3&msgId=1f48defc-0069-4609-bb7d-1d4ca68481e9

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I had the same issue, I kept getting the answer that it was IMPOSSIBLE from multiple Answer Desk associates!  

After almost giving up, I found a way to download and install the software manually using their own Deployment Tool.  Another good thing about using this tool is that I can keep a copy of the program offline in case I run into issues down the road and want to reinstall Office 2013.

The tool to use is the Office 365 Deployment Tool for Click to Run, normally used for administrators to use for installations across multiple PCs.

The download for the executable is at:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/details.aspx?id=36778

After downloading the tool, you just need to edit a couple of configuration files.  One to download the Office archive and one to install the archive.

I found some tips on how to use it at: https://blog.vsean.net/post/

example for Office 365 Home I used.

1. <Configuration>
2. <Add SourcePath=”C:\Office15\” OfficeClientEdition=”32” >
3. <Product ID=”O365HomePremRetail”>
4. <Language ID=”en-us” />
5. </Product>
6. </Add>
7. </Configuration>
8. <Configuration>
9. <Add SourcePath=”C:\Office15\” Version=”15.0.4753.1003” OfficeClientEdition=”32” >
10. <Product ID=”O365HomePremRetail”>
11. <Language ID=”en-us” />
12. </Product>
13. </Add>
14. <Display Level=”Full” AcceptEULA=”TRUE” />
    1. </Configuration> The other Product ID codes are located at:

https://blog.vsean.net/post/191

Big thanks to that website.

Hope that helps.  Crazy how many issues I had with my Surface Pro 3 and Windows 10 and Office 2016, but it runs like a champ on my desktops!

-Dry

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Get Help from MS Support to Roll Back -  ‘We need to remove some older apps” error’

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2016-outlook/rolling-back-to-2013-from-2016/edda2c54-de95-446f-a306-59c688f158f99?page=3&msgId=1f48defc-0069-4609-bb7d-1d4ca68481e9

https://community.office365.com/en-us/f/172/t/409681

We have a solution within Support for that. The issue is documented here: https://support.office.com/article/-We-need-to-remove-some-older-apps-error-a225347f-e102-4ea6-9796-5d1ac5220c3b

When you contact Support, let them know you are upgrading your Office 2013 subscription to 2016 and are getting a message that Visio or Project needs to be removed. The support agents are being reminded of this situation and how to resolve it.

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People who have home/personal can also work through support on getting this resolved, and they have a process to get you back on 2013.  If the support person is not providing you with a method to re-install 2013, feel free to give them my name as I am on the product engineering team, and own the compatibility matrix and the process for what to do for customers that currently connect to Exchange 2007

Let me know if you are unable to get this resolved.

Erik Ashby

Principal Program Manger

Outlook Org

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2013 Home Prem CTR Download Link

https://c2rsetup.officeapps.live.com/c2r/download.aspx?productReleaseID=O365HomePremRetail&platform=X86&language=en-US&TaxRegion=pr&correlationId=2491f612-e060-4d3c-beef-bc8149bb07fd&token=fd38e9c7-123e-4816-bb2b-d214abf849e2&version=O15GA&source=O15OLSOMEX

"I want to roll back to Word 2013. How do I do that?"

I rolled back to Office 2010. I ended up having to delete 2015 and re-install 2010 from a CD.

Actually what was presented as an update for Office 2013 actually is Office 2016.... they do not even tell you what you are upgrading too...

Ridiculuous

I want to roll back to Word 2013. How do I do that?

Thanks