In our recent poll, I have asked you to tell me which buttons you have on the quick access toolbar?
Finnur, one of our readers has configured the Excel 2007 quick access toolbar to make it look like Excel 2003 toolbar. See it below,

I think this is a very cool way to max up your productivity, it takes 5 minutes to make your quick access bar look like Excel 2003 toolbar and you could save countless hours of “searching-for-that-command-in-ribbon” time.
All you need to do for this is,
- Right click on “quick access toolbar” and select “customize” option.
- Add the all the commands required to make the your quick access toolbar look like Excel 2003 toolbar
- That is all.
See this video to understand how I did this for my Excel 2007 quick access toolbar.
Check out the video on youtube if you are not able to see it here.
Also, see how m-b, another reader, has implemented it here.
And if you are still bummed with Ribbon, check out our free excel ribbon learning guide.

















11 Responses to “MLB Pitching Stats Dashboard in Excel+VBA by our VBA Class Student”
Hey Dan,
Thanks a lot... this is too good 🙂
Awesome stuff Dan! very impressed..
Thanks guys.
Some nice ideas in there, thanks for sharing. I noticed the list with teams has a missing value though ('Arizona Diamondbacks'). Also when manipulating Pivot Tables with VBA you should be really careful not to try to select a value that isn't in the Pivot Table, if you do all hell breaks loose 🙂 That's not the case here but just some advise as I learned the hard way...
Ah.....ya caught me.
dnrTeamName drives both the charts and the drop down list. It refers to:
=OFFSET(PvtTeams!$A$6,0,0,COUNTA(PvtTeams!$A$6:$A$40),1)
If you change A6 to A5, it fixes that little issue.
A better question though, who actually cares about the Arizona Diamondbacks?
🙂
Excellent post. Thanks
Great job, Dan! Thanks a million!
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Gr8 work Dan
Hi,
I downloaded file, but looks like everything is in xml. Was there suppose to be excel file as well?
Thanks!
I'm late to the party, but seeing this file in action and studying the underlying data in this Excel file has been AWESOME. I have TONS of new ideas to implement in my work files now. THANK YOU Dan and Chandoo!