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Adding Excel to the Quick Launch Toolbar
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Launch Toolbar

The only problem with launching Excel from a desk-
top shortcut is that you have to have access to the
Windows desktop in order to use it. This means that
you can’t use it to launch Excel when, for example,
you’re working in another application full screen
such as Microsoft Word or PowerPoint.

To be able to launch Excel without accessing the
Windows desktop, you can add your Excel desktop
shortcut to the Windows Quick Launch toolbar. This
• Figure 7-1: Creating a desktop shortcut for the Excel
toolbar resides to the immediate right of the Start
program file in the Search Results dia- button on the Windows taskbar and is readily avail-
log box.
able at all times.
5. Click the Close button in the upper-right corner If the Quick Launch toolbar doesn’t appear
of the Search Results dialog box to close it.
after the Start button on your Windows
taskbar, its display is turned off. To turn
As soon as you close the Search Results dialog box, it back on, right-click the taskbar, select
you will see that Windows has added a Microsoft Properties and then select the Show Quick
Office Excel 2003 desktop shortcut. (See Figure 7-2.) Launch check box on the Taskbar tab of the
You can, if you wish, rename this icon to something Taskbar and Start Menu Properties dialog box
more manageable — such as Excel 2003 — by right- before you click OK.
clicking the icon and then deleting the redundant
Microsoft Officepart. To add your Excel desktop shortcut to the Quick
Launch toolbar, follow these few steps:

1. Display the Windows desktop by clicking the
Show Desktop button on the Quick Launch tool-
bar (if the desktop is not already displayed).

If the Quick Launch toolbar isn’t displayed on
your computer’s taskbar, display it by right-
clicking on a blank area on the taskbar and
then choosing Toolbars➪Quick Launch.
2. Drag the Excel desktop shortcut icon to the
place on the Quick Launch toolbar where
you want it to appear.
• Figure 7-2: The Microsoft Excel 2003 shortcut icon.
Excel indicates the place where the Excel icon
will be inserted by displaying a heavy, I-beam-
To launch Excel from your computer’s desktop, sim-
type pointer in between the existing buttons on
ply double-click the (Microsoft Office) Excel 2003 the Quick Launch toolbar.
desktop shortcut icon.