“Toolbar” and menu options

In this lesson we will see our menu bars and “Toolbars” plus how the behavior of these can be changed.
We can add buttons, delete and arrange the “Toolbars”.
We can even create our own “Toolbars”.
To change the behavior of the “Toolbars”, we choose “Tools” (“Tools”) – “Customize” (“Customize”) in the menu bar, or right-click anywhere on a “Toolbar” and choose “Customize”.
In the “Edit” dialog, select the “Options” tab.

Check the different options and / or animations to fit your needs, and then click “Close”.

Custom “Toolbars”

We can create our own “Toolbars” from “Toolbars” (“Toolbars”) tab in the “Customize” (“Customize”) dialog.
We see a whole list of available “Toolbars”.
Those that are checked are visible, those that are not are hidden.
We click on the “New” button, to create our own “Toolbar”.

We give our “Toolbar” a name, and click OK.
A new “Toolbar” is, of course, without buttons:
Below we will see how to add the buttons.

Add buttons to “Toolbars”

To add buttons to a “Toolbar”, we must first be sure that this “Toolbar” is visible.
Then we select “Tools” (“Tools”) – “Customize” (“Customize”) in the menu bar to open the “Customize” dialog box.
We choose the “Commands” tab in the dialog.

In the left half of the dialog box we see the different categories and in the right half , the buttons from the category selected in the left half.
To add a button to our “Toolbar”, we first select the category, choose a button, and we click and drag it from the right half of the dialog box to the the place where we want it in the “Toolbar” .
If the button is not placed, you can still select it and drag it where you want.

Add “Macro-buttons” to “Toolbars”

To add a “Macro” button to a “Toolbar”, we first make the “Toolbar” visible.
Then we select “Tools” (“Tools”) – “Customize” (“Customize”) from the menu bar.
In the “Customize” dialog box, we select “Macros” from the list of categories by selecting the “Commands” (Commands) tab.

We click and drag the “Macro” command that we just created from the “Commands” section (“Commands”) to the “Toolbar” button where we want.

Right-click the button in the “Toolbar”, and choose “Change Button image” (“Change button image”) to accommodate this.
Click on your choice.
To display only the image of the button, choose “Default” in the pop-up menu when we right click on the button.

Removing “Toolbar” buttons

To configure a button and remove it from our “Toolbar”, we first make the “Toolbar” visible.
Choose “Tools” (“Tools”) – “Customize” (“Customize”) from the menu bar.
Now click and drag the button that we want to remove from our “Toolbar” to the worksheet.

Removing “Toolbars”

We can remove “Toolbars” that we had previously created, but no longer wish to use.
We can also restore “Toolbars” from “Word” where we have added buttons, back to factory default settings in “Word”.

To remove a “Toolbar” we select “Tools” (“Tools”) – “Customize” (“Customize”) from the menu bar.
In the “Customize” dialog, we select the “Toolbars” tab.
We select our “Toolbar” and click the “Delete” button
A toolbar that comes standard with “Word” cannot be deleted.

To restore a “Toolbar” to its original form, we select the “Toolbar”, click on “Reset” and click OK.

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