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

RalphBergin,

How do you revert to office 2013?

EDIT: Figured it out.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2770432

For what little good it will do, you can direct your complaints to these links

Suggestion Box / Feedback

MS has finally added web sites to allow users to make suggestions similar to the “smiley”/”sad” face buttons you may have seen in the pubic beta versions of Office.

• http://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general - Office in general
• http://word.uservoice.com/
• http://excel.uservoice.com/
• http://powerpoint.uservoice.com/
• http://outlook.uservoice.com/
• https://onenote.uservoice.com/
• https://windows.uservoice.com/forums/265757-windows-feature-suggestions

These sites have options for the various versions of each application, ie Desktop vs Oneline vs Android vs Mac etc.

Microsoft: Tell us what you think - Feedback

http://office365.uservoice.com/forums/96391-general

http://mymfe.microsoft.com/support.microsoft.com/feedback.aspx?formid=24

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/suggestions.aspx Feedback

NOTE: when you post comments / suggestions it is best to limit each submission to one issue. That way replies can be specific to that error. And it makes it easier for MS to assign a submission to a specific development group or person.

All

The best place to make a complaint is probably MS Support. All contacts to support are supposed to be logged. These logs are used to generate some of those statistics MS is so fond of quoting.

MS Office 365

http://mymfe.microsoft.com/Microsoft%20%20Online%20%20Services/Feedback.aspx?formID=210

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.

QAT Kerning issue.

I am in the same situation, having created a custom QAT file so those less technically-oriented can keep working productively with Excel, without having to deal with the fact that Excel continuously get more complicated.

Now, in 2016, half the shortcuts are not visible in our standard QAT. I am going to have to issue a workaround memo to teach offices across the country they now have to "Look for a little arrow thingy on the right, and then when a new toolbar pops up below the old toolbar you are used too, click on the action you want Excel to take ...... "

In the short-term, my solution will be the same as Ralph's - prevent the deployment of 2016 until the QAT kerning issue fixed.  I don't have a problem with the size of the icons, just the spacing/kerning between them. Give me an option to shrink the Kerning between Icons on the QAT, and I will be fine.

In the meantime, I will find the time to try Patrick Conlan's suggestion and create a new tab/group/item combo in the Ribbon, as a workaround for me, because like Ralph points out, the extra click is completely counterproductive.