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

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Another thought - you don't mention anything about the system, itself, & the
older OS/Office versions suggests that it may also be a somewhat older Mac.
Are you running at a resolution of 1024x768 or better? If not Office 2004
will not display a number of things correctly. It requires that as a
minimum.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 7/30/06 5:11 PM, in article
1154293887.348764.49630@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "LouisF"
<louis.ferland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks, Jim.

I'm not sure what "haxies" are but I know I didn't install anything
that would cause this, at least not voluntarily. I just upgraded to OSX
from OS 9.2.2 and so far, all I installed is the OS itself, Office
2004, a French spelling / grammar SW called "Antidote" (plugs-in into
MW Word and other word processors; no reason to suspect it of messing
up with icon size; besides, I saw the big icons in Office before I
installed Antidote), and some SW from my ISP (Earthlink-DSL; the
package includes anti-virus, firewall, pop-up blocker; that kind of
stuff, so again no reason a priori to suspect this to be the culprit).

I did see the Universal Access control panel when I first toured my new
OS but did not turn on anything (just checked again). Besides, this
woud have enlarged everything on screen, not just the icons on the
toolbar, so I'm pretty sure this is not the problem.

Thanks for the effort with the VB script, even if you know that it
would actually be ignored by Office 2004, but anyway, what I want is to
get my icons smaller (like they were, and indeed still are) on my old
Word 98, under Classic, not larger.

Any other ideas?

Jim Gordon wrote:
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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