Office 2007 - Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar
Did you know the Quick Access Toolbar in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint can be customized? This is a very helpful tip in that users can add or subtract buttons to the toolbar that fit their work style. Here is one very easy way you can customize MS Office to work better for you! Any task that you perform multiple times when using these Microsoft Software titles can be added to the toolbar. Today's tip will show you how to customize the Quick Access Toolbar.
1. The Quick Access Toolbar is located above the Ribbon, by default. You will notice that there are two buttons (outlined in blue) that were added, the Draw Table button and the Font Dialog Box button.
2. To add buttons that you use regularly to the Quick Access Toolbar, click on the Arrow 
that is located on the right end of the Toolbar. Clicking on the arrow will display the Customize Quick Access Toolbar menu. Notice the menu provides some commonly used commands to select from. Just click on the command and it will be added to the toolbar immediately. If you don't see the command that you want to add to the Toolbar, select More Commands
.
3. Selecting More Commands will open the Word Options dialog box. Here you will see that Customize is selected. There are popular commands shown by default, but you can click on the arrow next to Popular Commands and this will bring up the many categories of tools in Word, or the software you are customizing. When you find what you want to add to the toolbar, click on it and then click on the Add button. After you have added the buttons you want to use on the Quick Access Toolbar, use the arrows to the right of the list of buttons to put the buttons in the order you prefer. Finally click on OK.
4. I am going to select a few different Commands options in Word and and follow the steps below:
- Select the Commands category
- C lick on the buttons I want to add to the toolbar
- Click on Add
- Put them in the order I prefer
- Click on OK.
This will result in a new look to my Quick Access Toolbar.
5. To remove a button, right-click on the button you want to remove and select Remove From the Quick Access Toolbar.
6. To add more buttons or change their order, use the arrow to select from the Customize menu and select More Commands.
This is a great way to make Word, Excel, or PowerPoint help you be more efficient!.
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