Microsoft Office Missing from Desktop

Loobeylou

When I installed Microsoft Office I had it sitting nicely in a long toolbar on my desktop with things like Word, Excel and Access on there. However, somehow I have managed to get rid of it from the desktop and have no idea how to get it back.

Any ideas anyone?

Dude

Try this link

http://it.carlow.edu/Quicksheets/MS/Restore.htm

Loobeylou

Got it back, thanks.

Loobeylou

OK - same problem but different, in that I yesterday I purchased Office 2003 (Student and Teacher Edition)and have upgraded my old Office '97. Is there a way to get that to sit in a toolbar on my desktop, rather than having to go into start/programmes? The tip mentioned above does not seem to work now.

Chippy_Minton

The Office Toolbar isn't provided with Office 2003.

You can do a similar thing by enabling the Quick Launch Toolbar, which is an area of icons immediately to the right of the Start button. Right-click an empty area of the Taskbar (the bar at the bottom of the screen), click Toolbars and make sure Quick Launch is ticked.

Now you can drag and drop icons from the Desktop on to the Quick Launch toolbar. Of course you'll need to have put the shortcuts to your Office programs on to your desktop beforehand. To do this go to the Office program with Start - Programs, right-click the menu and click Send To - Desktop (create shortcut). Once the shortcut icon is on the Quick Launch bar you can delete it from the Desktop.

Loobeylou

Had just nicely got Word/Access/Excel etc sitting back in a toolbar at the right of my screen again, but must not have saved the settings or something because it is missing again, both from mine and my husbands various settings.

However, I have followed Chippy_Minton's advice and now have it all sitting on the bottom toolbar. Not entirely sure why it did not save it in the Microsoft toolbar.