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

This is not helpful at all. Just rehashing all of the features that we are already using does not address the simple request: make the icons smaller, like they were in previous versions. I understand that MS is working on fixing this, but really - who is looking at user interface usability there? How could anyone think that making the icons so big that only a small number of them are visible could possible be an "improvement?" Doesn't MS have a user group that you run these things by?

I have a touchscreen laptop and if you enable the touch input in Excel/Word/Etc.  It actually makes the buttons bigger and further apart.  Which is great.  If the normal QAT is small.  I think the touch QAT is a little smaller than the normal mouse one.  That totally makes sense!  LOL.

Why do we have to explain in detail how we use it and how it is negatively impacting us?  Is it not enough to explain that this is a root level issue?

Why ... think about it this way.  The clown who came up with the idea supported it with a business case explaining why this way is "better" (for MS) than the old way.  The bosses fell for the line and took it hook, line and sinker. They approved spending money to make this change.

So now we, the real users, have to provide enough information about how bad this idea so that another person can build another business case to get approval to spend more money to undo the change. Or better yet, enhance it to add a USER CONTROLLED option on how it is displayed.  (Please, no auto switch, those auto features are too often just not smart enough).  Don't forget, now our champion in the company has to get the same goofs who made the decision in the first place to admit they oops'd and allow the new fix.  Being shown to be wasting corporate resources could be detrimental to their career and definitely to their year end bonuses!

So, PLEASE, invest 2 minutes to copy and paste the big para of your above reply into the user voice site.  The best way to convince MS is lots of user feedback.

Actually, I'll even give you a link to an existing suggestion for this issue:

• http://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/9906966-office-2016-quick-access-toolbar-too-wide 
• 2016 QAT is too Spaced OUT!

Bonus:

I've collected links to MS uservoice pages in this wiki:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki/windows_10-desktop/ms-suggestion-box-sites-at-uservoicecom/7397119c-6d48-49e6-8d94-7bd0a50d214f?tm=1447217971960

Yes, I encourage anyone impacted by this issue to use the User Voice sites to feedback. In this case, as Excel users:

http://excel.uservoice.com/

I'd ask that you try to describe how you use the QAT, how the change has impacted your use of Excel. The more you tell us about what you are trying to get done (and how we are getting in your way) the greater the impact of your feedback.

I know that *every* engineering team in Office values this feedback, and takes it into consideration when planning work so it isn't just a back hole.

Why do we have to explain in detail how we use it and how it is negatively impacting us?  Is it not enough to explain that this is a root level issue?

The exaggerated icon spacing doesn't allow most of the icons to be seen.  This stops it from being a single click QUICK Access Toolbar.  Multiple clicks in the Ribbon system and keyboard combinations in the middle of mousing are not solutions.  It is also detrimental to productivity to no longer be able to see the file name beside the QAT when I'm working on multiple files simultaneously.

Can a notification be sent when this problem is corrected?  I have turned off automatic updates so that the problems aren't made worse.