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Working with Personalized Toolbars
Toolbars provide shortcuts to menu commands. Each toolbar in 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. Their arrangement on one row causes most of the Standard toolbar buttons to appear, but only a few of the Formatting toolbar buttons are visible. To view the hidden buttons for either of these toolbars, a More Buttons button is provided at the right side of each toolbar. When one of these buttons is clicked, a toolbar palette appears with the previously hidden buttons displayed.
Displaying hidden toolbar buttons
Read through the steps:. If you would like to complete these steps in an actual file, create a new file in and then proceed through the steps. (Follow this link for instructions on creating a new Office file.)
Practice the Skill
- Open an Office 2000 program, if necessary.
- Click the More Buttons button
on any toolbar.
A toolbar palette appears with additional buttons displayed. - Click the desired previously hidden button.
The toolbar palette disappears and the selected button appears on the appropriate toolbar.
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