Tricks of the Microsoft® Office Gurus

Chapter 10. Customizing Office to Suit Your Style

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Displaying, Moving, and Sizing Toolbars

• Menu and Toolbar Customization Options

• Creating Custom Menus

• Creating Custom Toolbars

• Creating Custom Keyboard Shortcuts in Word

• Customizing the Office Common Dialog Boxes

The Microsoft programmers designed Office so that the commands and features commonly used by most people are within easy reach. This means that the setup of the menu system and toolbars reflects what the ordinary user might want. However, no one—particularly an Office guru—qualifies as an ordinary user; we all work with Office in our own way. What one person uses every day, another needs only once a year; one user’s obscure technical feature is another’s bread and butter.

To address ...