Tips: Customizing your toolbars
Show of hands: Who uses the Document Map feature in Microsoft Word? Or, the Research feature? Nobody? Then why are they prominently displayed on your toolbar?
Toolbars should be used to access the most commonly used actions so you're not constantly clicking the Tools menu, selecting a menu item, and so on and so on.
Customize
Word to fit your needs
Fortunately, Word (and pretty much every
other Microsoft Office program) lets you customize your toolbar to your liking.
Want to save all open documents at the same time? There's a command for that.
Why not put THAT on your toolbar. On you way out, and want to close all your open
documents at the same time. Put THAT on your toolbar as well.
Here's how you can customize your toolbars (using the Save All example)
- In Word, use your mouse, right-click on the toolbar, and select Customize (last item in the menu). The Customize dialog box opens.
- In the Customize dialog box, click the Command tab. The Command tab lists all of Word's commands.
- In the Categories pane, select File.
- In the Commands pane, select Save All Documents and drag it to your toolbar (or to the File menu). You can also drag items off your toolbar or menu.
Note: Toolbar customizations are generally housed in the Normal.dot template (the default template) unless you specifically make them in another template.
Tips
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Comments in Word
Comparing documents
Copying multiple items to the
clipboard
Cropping pictures
Customizing your toolbars
Outlines
Picture bullets
Reviewing documents
Table of contents
Toolbars
Zooming to magnify your
text
Adobe Acrobat
Downloading entire Web site
to a single PDF file
General
ClipX
Evernote
Free Conference
Call
Google SMS
Keyboard shortcuts
Signing documents electronically
Print selection of Web
page
Swipe files
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