Sorry - the right hand side of my toolbar is buried behind a double arrow, so I didn't think to look there. (With every unnecessary keystroke or buried option I get further irritated with software. Stuff like that is the efficiency equivalent of a software bug.)

That option isn't checked. So you're saying this is as narrow as the icon spacing gets in this version, correct? I hate it when Word design changes cost me keystroke efficiency. This one did that. Dang, I just hate that.

Thanks