if you r-click on the Taskbar you will see "Toolbars", you may select
from premade or "roll your own".

Stevo1604 wrote:

Prior to my computer crash/recovery, I had a MS Office application docking
bar on my desktop where I could drag and drop shortcuts to a variety of
applications thereby reducing the clutter on my desktop while giving me easy
access to those apps I used most frequently.

I would like to recover that if possible