Floating toolbar

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Steve

Recently upgraded from Word 2000
to Word 2007.

I write novels and I like to save my document after every little change I
make. So even if I go and add a comma somewhere it is my habit to click the
Save Button immediately afterwards.

I used to be able to put a floating toolbar with a Save button just to the
right of my text so that I didn't have to move my attention (and the cursor)
up to the toolbar default Save button.

Is there anything comperable available in 2007?
 
De gustibus non est disputandum and all that, but I would never consider
reaching way up to the top of the keyboard and stabbing for F12 easier than
pressing Ctrl+S with (most of) my fingers on the home row!

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
 
Terry Farrell said:
I never did understand why Save and SaveAs were assigned shortcuts that
way around, because if you open a new document and execute a simple Save,
it opens the SaveAs dialog anyway because you have to assign a name. So a
single click F12 to Save makes much more sense.
Click to expand...

I think it's designed that way to make it slightly harder to overwrite a
document by accident. If you accidentally hit the F12 key you're presented
with a dialog which you can just cancel. It's far more unlikely (although
not impossible, I'll admit) that you'll accidentally hit S or F12 whilst
simultaneously holding down the Shift key.
 
That's a distinct possibility. 'Dumbed down to the lowest common
denominator!'

Terry
 
May I take it, then, that there is no way of getting a floating toolbar in
the 2007 version?

I sure miss that.

I had a couple of other handy buttons on the toolbar, also.
 
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