Working with Toolbars

By default, the Standard and Formatting toolbars share the same row. The Standard toolbar is on the left and the Formatting toolbar is on the right.

The Standard toolbar contains buttons for creating, saving, and opening documents, as well as for performing common editing tasks .

The Formatting toolbar contains buttons for formatting your text.

Point to the leftmost toolbar button in the Standard toolbar. A ScreenTip appears, displaying the name of the button. All toolbar buttons have ScreenTips.

INTRODUCTION

Word's toolbars contain buttons you can use to issue commonly used commands. Although most people find clicking toolbar buttons more convenient than accessing commands in the pull-down menus , you can use any combination of toolbar buttons and menu commands you choose. Word comes with 21 toolbars, but displays only two by default: the Standard and Formatting toolbars. You can easily hide or display any toolbar to suit your preferences.

Open the View menu and choose Toolbars .

Notice that the Standard and Formatting toolbars have check marks next to them. Click Formatting .

The Formatting toolbar is now hidden, and all the buttons in the Standard toolbar are displayed now that there is room for them.

Open the View menu and choose Toolbars , and click Formatting again to bring the toolbar back.

Click the Toolbar Options arrow at the right end of the Standard toolbar.

The Toolbar Options list contains the buttons that don't fit on the visible part of the toolbar. Click the Show/Hide button.

The Show/Hide button is now visible, and the feature is turned on; click the button again to turn the feature off. (See "Seeing Paragraph, Tab, and Space Marks" in Part 3.)

To add a new button to the Standard toolbar, click the Toolbar Options arrow, and then point to Add or Remove Buttons . A submenu appears.

INTRODUCTION

When the Standard and Formatting toolbars are on the same row, you can't see all their toolbar buttons. Word makes it easy to access the hidden buttons, however, and as soon as you use one of them, Word moves it to a visible spot on the toolbar. In addition to displaying buttons that are included by default on a toolbar, you can also add new buttons, or remove ones that you never use. And, of course, you can reset a toolbar to return to the default set of buttons.

Point to Standard to display all the buttons you can add to the Standard toolbar. If necessary, click the down arrow to bring them all into view.

Buttons that don't have check marks are not currently included in the toolbar. Click the Find button to add it to the toolbar, and then click outside the menu.

The Find button is now on the Standard toolbar. (You'll learn about this feature in "Searching for Text" in Part 8.)

To reset the Standard toolbar, click the Toolbar Options arrow, point to Add or Remove Buttons , point to Standard , and then click Reset Toolbar .