Special Edition Using Microsoft® Word 2000

Customizing Menus

In Word 2000, customizing menus is similar to customizing toolbars. Three aspects of customizing menus will seem very familiar if you've read the previous sections about toolbars:

• You work from the Tools, Customize dialog box.

• You drag choices where you want them to appear.

• You can customize existing menus or create new ones.

The simplest case is adding a command to an existing menu.

Adding a Command to an Existing Menu

You might find there's a command you often use which "ought" to appear on a Word menu, but doesn't. For example, the File menu includes Save and Save As, but why not Save All? Then you could save all your open files at the same time. Why isn't the Print Preview command on the View menu where all the other views ...