Thursday, November 15, 2012

Microsoft Office Save Undo Fix

Problem: Microsoft put the Save and Undo buttons one pixel apart on the Quick Access toolbar. Thus, you go to save your work and accidentally Undo the last thing you did, in which case you have to hit the Redo button before you save. Or you go to Undo a terrible mistake and accidentally Save, in which case you curse forever the idiots who designed the Quick Access toolbar and take to drink. Well, actually you can still do an Undo after you have done a save, so all is not lost. But still, if there were ever two tiny buttons that should have space between them it is Save and Undo.


And you can put that space there. Just right-click one of those buttons and select Customize Quick Access Toolbar. In the resulting dialog add a few separators between Save and Undo. I find five produces an aesthetically pleasing spacer. You have to do this for each of your Office programs, but unlike so many useful Microsoft workarounds, this one carries over from one document to the next. Do it once for Word 2010 and you never need to do it again. Would that all Microsoft design flaws were so easy to repair.