Outlook 2000 in a Nutshell

The Customize Dialog

The Customize Dialog (Figure 4-1) centralizes all the menu and toolbar configuration options. This dialog is accessed by right-clicking on the menu bar or any toolbar and selecting the Customize command, or by selecting Tools → Customize. Note that this is a common dialog used by all Office 2000 applications. Some options selected here affect all Office programs; others—such as toolbar and menu customizations—remain local to the program.

Invoking this dialog signals the Office application where it is opened that you are in “customization” mode. As long as the Customize dialog is open, the program interprets any actions involving menus or toolbars as modifications, not commands.

Figure 4-1. The Customize dialog Options tab, with adaptive menus turned off

The Options tab, shown in Figure 4-1, contains options relating to the various display features and arrangements of menus and toolbars. Most of the choices listed on this tab apply globally to all Office applications; there are two exceptions, and they are noted in the descriptions that follow.

1. “Standard and Formatting toolbars share one row” is selectable in contexts where both a standard and a formatting toolbar are displayed (for example, the Outlook mail editor). Where this context is not applicable, the option will be grayed, as shown in Figure 4-1. This is one of two options on this tab that when activated only ...