Hi Joseph,
This is the "Making Windows Easy" list, an offshoot of my "Making
Windows 10 Easy" books project (see:
http://www.22point.com.au/publications.html)
I went with "MWE" as that way the subject line isn't too long before you
get to whatever the actual topic of the message is.
I will put a bit more info in the footer though to remind people!
Re editing the quick access toolbar, is there a way to rearrange items
in the quick access toolbar for say File Explorer or WordPad in Windows
10 other than removing things and adding them in the order you want?
Kind regards
Quentin.
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On 7/12/2015 10:38 AM, Joseph FreeTech wrote:
Hi Quentin,
Please refresh my memory, what is the full name of this list? <Smile>.
In regards to the tip below, to amplify the information a bit...
In the Office applications such as Word, Excel, etc, one can modify the
order of the items on the Quick Access Toolbar so that most used options can
be quickly accessed using the Alt key and numbers 1 through 9 etc. Normally,
when adding to the QUICK ACCESS TOOLBAR, new items are placed at the end of
the existing list, but like I stated, one can modify the order of these
items. Believe it or not, the QUICK ACCESS TOOLBAR has been around since
Office 2007, but so few screenreader users have taken advantage of this
great feature of Office.
Joseph the free tech guy!
All are welcome to write me off list if absolutely any help is needed
----- Original Message -----
From: "Quentin Christensen" <quentin.christensen@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <mwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2015 2:47 PM
Subject: [mwe] Tip: Making the most of the Quick Access Toolbar
Hi everyone,
As promised (only slightly over a week ago *grin*), here is my new tip
of the week!
File Explorer, WordPad, and many other Microsoft programs such as
Office, use a "Ribbon" to access features and options. While some of
the most common options have keyboard shortcuts (for instance CONTROL+B
for Bold text in WordPad, F2 to rename a file in File Explorer etc), and
you can get to any of the options by pressing:
ALT then three or four letters, eg to get to Line Spacing in WordPad press:
ALT (for the Ribbon)
H (for Home)
PS (for Line Spacing)
If you use a feature very often, you might want a quicker way to access
it. The Quick Access Toolbar is at the left end of the title bar and by
default usually has a couple of icons to common features. You can get
to these by pressing ALT+number. By default in WordPad for instance,
there are "Save" (alt+1) and "Undo" (alt+2) and "Redo" (alt+3) so if you
add say "Line Spacing", it would become alt+4.
To add an item to the quick access toolbar:
1. Press alt,
2. Press h (or the letter for any of the other ribbons: F for File, or V
for View in both File Explorer or WordPad, or S for Share in File
Explorer only),
3. Navigate to the option you want (CONTROL+RIGHT ARROW three times to
move to the "Paragraph" section, then press TAB three time).
4. Press the context menu (also called applications key)
5. Choose "Add to quick access toolbar".
What items do you use most frequently and would benefit from adding to
the Quick Access Toolbar (or already have there)?
Regards
Quentin.
