Computer Tutor: Tips & Tricks
Customizing MS Office Toolbars ... {continued}

Note:  The toolbars shown here easily fit on a screen set for 1024x768 or higher.  We've kept the toolbar at its original size in order to provide the detail, so ...  If your screen resolution is set to 800x600 or lower, you will need to scroll across to see the entire image.  Also, if you set your screen to 800x600, but would still like to have as many of the tools available only a mouse-click away, you can simply add another new toolbar for the additional icons.

Microsoft Word Customized Toolbars:

   The toolbars below are customized versions, from top to bottom, of

1. the Word Menu Bar ... with Toolbars & the Help Contents icon added;

2. the Standard Toolbar ... with a variety of additions, like icons for New Docs {that brings up the templates instead of just a new blank document}, Page Setup, Find & Replace, and more ...

3. the Formatting Toolbar ... with additions for small caps, changing case, super-/subscript, symbols, text direction, justifying layout, adding columns, etc. ... and

4. a Custom [New] Toolbar ... with one-click options for inserting files, date/time, pg. nos., footnotes, text boxes, frames, comments, page breaks & line spacing options,  paragraph formatting, macros ... and more

Microsoft Excel Customized Toolbars

   The toolbars below are customized versions, from top to bottom, of

1. the Excel Menu Bar {no changes};

2. the Standard Toolbar ... with additions for new sheets via templates, for Save As... , for zooming views, and for starting macros or calling them ... and

3. the Formatting Toolbar ... with additions for font size, cell shading, various signs for formula/function entries, like $ ... + ... etc.} ... and

4. a 'Custom Toolbar' ... with one-click options for adding a worksheet, Page Setup, freezing panes, adding rows or columns, locking cells, clearing cells or formatting, pasting formats or values, filling series, etc.

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