HOW TO
• Relates to: MOS XP Master | MOS XP Expert | MOS XP | MOS 2000 Master | MOS 2000 Expert | MOS 2000
The purpose of this article is
to teach you how to customize the menu structure and toolbar structure of all of
the Office XP applications. The procedure I am about to show you works with all
of the Office XP applications; however, for simplicity's sake I will use
Microsoft Word XP in my examples. Shall we begin?
Moving/Undocking/Docking/Closing/Opening
Toolbars
Office XP toolbars can be moved by clicking
and dragging their move handles. The move handle can be found on the
leftmost edge of a toolbar.
You undock a toolbar when you move it
from the top, bottom, left or right side of the application interface. When a
toolbar is undocked, you can close it by clicking its Close button (the
exception to this is the menu bar, which cannot be closed). You can move an
undocked toolbar by clicking and dragging its title bar.
When a toolbar is closed, it can be
re-opened in a couple of different ways. First, try clicking View =>
Toolbars, and selecting the toolbar you want to display from the list.
Alternatively, right-click any visible toolbar button and select the appropriate
toolbar from the shortcut menu.
Adding or Removing Toolbar Buttons (quickly and
easily)
Office XP introduces a quick, easy method
for adding or removing toolbar buttons. To do this, you simply click the
Toolbar Options button  at the rightmost edge of a toolbar and click Add or Remove Buttons
=> toolbar_name. Next, select or deselect the appropriate toolbar
button from the submenu.
Note that the last entry in the Add or
Remove Buttons submenu is Reset Toolbar. Selecting this option will
reset all buttons to their "factory default" settings. Selecting
Customize... from the submenu will invoke the Customize dialog
box, which we will discuss shortly.
Adding and Removing Menu/Toolbar Buttons with the Customize
Dialog Box
In previous versions of Office XP, the
Customize dialog box was the only place where you could add or remove
toolbar buttons. It is still kind of a "one-stop shop," and many other tasks
still can only be performed from within this dialog box. To open the
Customize dialog box, click Tools => Customize.... You can also
find the Customize... option in all of the previously mentioned toolbar
menus.
Let's first take a look at the
Commands tab, so I can teach you how to add and remove buttons "the long
way." Really, it's a simple process: so long as the Customize dialog box
is opened, you can simply drag visible toolbar buttons off their toolbars and
into the document white space to remove them. To add a button to an existing
toolbar, select a toolbar category from the Categories: list box. Scroll
through the Commands: list until you find your desired toolbar button.
Finally, drag and drop its icon to a toolbar and let go of the mouse button.
Voila! Note that your mouse pointer takes on a new icon shape...
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