Re: Is there a way to control the size of tollbar buttons in Office?

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Hi Louis,

There used to be a setting to turn on large toolbars in Mac Office. In Excel 2001, for example, you would use Tools > Customize then click on the Appearance tab. There's a checkbox for "Large Buttons."

In Office 2004 there is no corresponding checkbox or setting. It is not possible to turn on large buttons because the program no longer has the ability to display them.

Even if you try to use visual basic to change the size, it won't work. This code will make the buttons large in 2001 but is ignored by 2004:

Sub MakeLargeButtons()
Set allBars = CommandBars
allBars.LargeButtons = False
End Sub

I say this because it is pretty safe to assume that if the toolbars in Office 2004 are extremely large, it is almost certainly being caused by something other than office.

Have you installed any "haxies"? These are programs that can enhance the Mac OS user interface. Perhaps you got into MacOS settings under System Preferences > Universal Access and changed something there.

Look for a cause outside of Office, because I don't think the button size is even able to be changed no matter what you do within Office.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP


LouisF wrote:
Hi,
Since I upgraded to OSX Tiger 10.4.7/Office 2004 (straight from OS
9.2.2/Office 98!), the toolbars in MS Word are enormous on screen, in
my OSX environment (though the toolbars in my old Word 98, under
Classic, are still just fine).

A friend found a posting somewhere saying, if we understood well, that
the "Customize toolbars/menus" dialog box should have an "Options" tab
where I might be able to control the size of the buttons in the
toolbars. I don't seem to have such a tab in this dialog. Am I looking
at the right place?

The toolbar buttons are just as big in Excel (2004) so this may be a
more general setting; is there a central preferences panel for all
Office, where such a control might be located?

Any other ideas?

.

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