Chapter 19

Customizing Office Applications

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Customize the Quick Access Toolbar

Bullet Customize the Ribbon

Bullet Customize the Status Bar

Bullet Set Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Options

Bullet Set Outlook Options

People have different ideas about what constitutes the “best” way for a program to operate. For every feature that one person finds ideal, someone else finds that same feature very annoying. That’s why Microsoft Office has a variety of options you can customize to make the applications work more like you want.

In this chapter, I show you how to customize the Quick Access Toolbar and the status bar in all the Office applications. (The process works basically the same in all of them.) Then I go through some of the most common program options. I cover Outlook options separately from the others because they are different from the rest (just as Outlook itself is its own beast).

Customize the Quick Access Toolbar

The Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) is the small toolbar that appears in one of ...

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