Docking MS Word's Formatting Palette?

[Mac In School]

I hate this floating thing. Excel's too. Every time I resize a document window I have to move that stupid little palette around.

Is there any way to turn it into a normal toolbar across the top?

 

[Mac In School]

The story of my life:

I spend hours search for an answer to a question. If I can't find an answer, I visit a forum and post the question. Being the diligent little work I am, I keep searching on my own.

Five minutes later I figure it out.

Problem solved.

So this isn't a complete waste of space, does anybody know how to train Excel to start up without a (blank) document?

 

[Le Big Mac]

The story of my life:


So this isn't a complete waste of space, does anybody know how to train Excel to start up without a (blank) document?

What do you want it to start up with? You can have it start with the project gallery, but that's pretty annoying most of the time.

 

[Mac In School]

Nothing. Just open up without a default document. Just like Photoshop does.

I very rarely create documents. I'm constantly working from others' documents. So when I launch Word or Excel, I close that window before opening the doc I want.

It's not a huge deal. I typically open documents other ways (like double-clicking them, or dragging them to the dock), so it's not a huge deal. But if it is customizable, I'd rather not have a default doc.

 

[benjancewicz]

The story of my life:

I spend hours search for an answer to a question. If I can't find an answer, I visit a forum and post the question. Being the diligent little work I am, I keep searching on my own.

Five minutes later I figure it out.

Problem solved.

So this isn't a complete waste of space, does anybody know how to train Excel to start up without a (blank) document?

Would you care to share with the class? I'm having trouble figuring this one out...

 

[ucfgrad93]

Would you care to share with the class? I'm having trouble figuring this one out...

Me, too!

 

[drfrag]

Grr, this toolbox is highly annoying. It keeps disappearing when I play with Spaces.
If you come back here someday, I'd like to read the way to dock it in the main window.

ciao

 

[SleepySunday95]

Finally, Finally, Finally! After messing around with it for about 30 minutes I found it.

View>Toolbars>Formatting
And there it is, docked at the top. I've been needed this for a year!!!

 

[coops]

Well - i like the formatting palette, as it frees up vertical screen space... but, it would be great if it could be docked/snapped to the side of main window.

I've setup a script so a keyboard shortcut resizes & moves my word & excel apps to my preferred setting - and also sets my preferred zoom level and default view style, which helps, since i don't then need to resize any window manually and move the palette.

Here's what my zoomed word looks like after hitting my Command-Z shortcut -

Long rambling post of mine includes details on how to set this kind of thing up
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/826047/