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Displaying and Hiding Toolbars
Toolbars provide shortcuts to menu commands. Each toolbar in the Office 2000 programs is composed of buttons and pull-down lists. Each button executes a specific menu command.
Each Office 2000 program provides several default toolbars, each of which groups related features. In Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, the Standard and Formatting toolbars appear by default on the same row under the menu bar. The Standard toolbar contains buttons used for many general functions, whereas the Formatting toolbar contains buttons and pull-down lists used to enhance the appearance of text and numbers.
You can choose to display one, several, or all the toolbars at any given time, or you can hide all the toolbars to create a larger working area.
When you point to a button on a toolbar, the name for its function appears. This description is referred to as a toolbar ScreenTip. Even if a toolbar button is dimmed (because it is not available for the current task), the ScreenTip still appears when you point to the button.
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addition to moving a toolbar, you can also use the More Buttons button 
at the end of a toolbar to see any hidden buttons that do not fit on the docked toolbar.
The Standard and Formatting Toolbars
Read through the steps:. If you would like to complete these steps in an actual Word file, create a new Word document and then proceed through the steps. (Follow this link for instructions on creating a new Office file.)
Practice the Skill
- The View menu appears.
- Point to the Toolbars command.
The Toolbars submenu appears. - Select the command (click Drawing in this case) for the toolbar you want to display.
The Drawing toolbar appears. - The Toolbars submenu appears. Select the Drawing command again to
hide the Drawing toolbar.
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