Special Edition Using Microsoft® Word 2000

Adding a New Toolbar

Until now, you've worked on toolbars that already exist. However, one of the most common ways to customize toolbars is to create your own custom toolbar. That way, you can leave the existing toolbars alone and avoid confusing people who don't understand why the buttons on those toolbars don't match the documentation.

You can add sets of commands to custom toolbars associated with specific tasks or clients. You can even store them in custom templates, so they appear automatically when you create documents based on those templates. For example, you can do the following:

• You can create a toolbar associated with invoicing, and attach it to your invoice template.

• You can create a "long document" toolbar with buttons for inserting ...