Quick Access Toolbar

Mar 19, 2008, 4:33 PM -05:00

As I was building a new laptop and begin to work with Office 2007 apps, I missed the little customizable toolbar. When I started looking for it I didn’t even know what it was called. I found out it is the “Quick Access Toolbar.” Also, the toolbar settings are stored in a file for each application, “Word.qat, Excel.qat, PowerPoint.qat (These are the apps I tested, maybe other Office 2007 apps too. OneNote does not have the Quick Access Toolbar.).”

If you save or can recover the *.qat files from your previous work environment you can save them to your new system and be good to go. Here are the file locations.

For XP: C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Setting\Application Data\Microsoft\Office
For Vista: C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office

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