I'm constantly finding things to add to the toolbar in Word 2003, though
every time I do, it is with a twinge of sadness, realizing it will be much
more difficult in Word 2007. LIke Jean-Guy, I have a button for "Page break
before" (though I don't actually use that one often) but also buttons for
"Keep with next" and "Keep lines together" (and thanks, Robert Franz for the
attractive button icons). One big advantage of all of these is that they're
toggles and display the state of the current paragraph, so it's easy to see
whether a paragraph has the given formatting (the square bullet tells you
they have one or more of the above, but not which one).

Just the other day it occurred to me that there might be a button for File |
Send To | Mail Recipient (As Attachment). I figured I might have to create
my own button icon (or use the one for the existing E-mail button, which I
never use), but to my delight there was not only a readymade command but one
with a button icon! I slapped myself silly for not realizing this many moons
ago--so many wasted mouse clicks!

BTW, Jean-Guy, I understand you can have different QATs for different
templates--not the same as having toolbars you can turn on and off in any
template, but a start.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Jean-Guy Marcil" wrote in message
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"Gordon" wrote:

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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The experience seems to be that the new UI is more intuitive for
brand-new
users and not too difficult for casual users to get used to. Longtime
power users, the ones who knew where every command was on every menu
and
where every button was in every dialog or on every toolbar (and had
their
toolbars and menus extensively customized), are the ones who are really
suffering.


But, since we represent less than 1% (I guess) of all users, we don't
count!

Interesting. As an aside, and as a "power" user of Excel (mainly - since
Office 95) - I never had any cause to do ANY customization of
toolbars.....I
wonder why people are so obsessed with it?

Quick examples:
In Word, I always use "Format Paragraph... Line and Page Breaks Page
Break Before OK" which is 5 clicks. (This is because I abhor manual Page
Break as they have too often caused me grief...) Therefore, I added this
command to the tool bar... Now, one click.
In addition, I often need to get to the "Advanced Layout" tab (Object
Format) to adjust object position on a page, or to get information.
Normally,
this is between 4 and 6 clicks away (depending on what you did last time
you
displayed the Object Format dialog). So I have a macro that opens it
directly
and I have added a button on the drawing toolbar...

If you do many repetitive tasks or often use the same tools to do diverse
tasks, it is definitely helpful to be able to customize the toolbars...
This
is why 2007 is a pain to those who used to have extensive customizations
in
order to make their job easier. One QAT to customize isn't the same as
over
20 toolbars you can customize according to the type of tasks that needs to
be
performed...