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Customise the Quick Access Toolbar in Word via Group Policy or Office Customisation Tool

Anonymous
2020-07-08T14:43:00+00:00

Hi,

I want to remove by default one of the tools on the Quick Access Toolbar for all users (the Automatically Save / AutoSave button as we aren't using OneDrive) how can I do this. Is there a setting in the Office Customisation Tool or a Group Policy settings that can be used?

Thanks,

Andrew

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Anonymous
2020-07-08T20:04:50+00:00

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for using Microsoft products and posting in the community, I’m glad to offer help.

According to your description, we can know that you want to remove “AutoSave” button from the Quick Access Toolbar for all users.

I did some tests and research via Office Customization Tool (Cloud Policy) and Group Policy, I’m afraid I have to tell you that currently there is no such a policy can do that.

For Cloud Policy, although there is a policy can turn off AutoSave by default, it cannot remove the button from the Quick Access Toolbar, and user can still enable it manually.

For Group Policy, I didn’t find any related policy can customize the Quick Access Toolbar, the policies are more used to enable or block certain functions, but not to customize the Quick Access Toolbar.

In this case, I’d like to suggest you post an idea in UserVoice, it is the best way to let the relevant team hear your needs, anyone’s suggestion could have a chance to be adopted by Microsoft, your understanding will be highly appreciated.

Reference: Word - UserVoice

Best Regards,

Arck

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-07-09T10:48:17+00:00

    Thank you. That is great information.

    That is generally that I found as well and think I will add a uservoice request. I did see you can export a custom toolbar and send this to other machines but users can still turn it back on. These are my notes on it:

    You can turn off the option by default via Group Policy or during deployment using the Office Customisation Tool (OCT) but the AutoSave tool will still remain visible on the Quick Access Toolbar and users can turn it back on. I can’t see anything in GP or in the OCT which removes this tool form the toolbar. The only thing I found was to set the toolbar as you want then export it and import it to other machines. Users can still add the tool back to the toolbar though.

    These links and images cover this:

    https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/office-365/ee436c6f-57c4-446f-b2b7-652783110d0d

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-it-administrators-should-know-about-autosave-88e0f80f-e5ea-441b-9c5a-259f08490ae7

    https://blog.thesysadmins.co.uk/deploying-office-2010-custom-gui-via-group-policy.html

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