Make your own toolbar in Word

Contributed by risherz November 9, 2005  
Tagged: Microsoft Word

Remove other toolbars and only use what you need while creating something with word.

Some times it is easier to have one toolbar rather than have many toolbars. For example you might be doing a little bit of drawing and a little bit of web-editing and editing a little bit of forms. You don’t need to have three toolbars for that, you can just have a single toolbar for everything. This way your space isn’t that cluttered and you know what you are typing!

To do this…
1. Click on View in the menu bar
2. Then click on Toolbars
3. After that click on Customize…
4. In the window that pops up go to the Toolbars tab
5. To your right click on a button called New…
6. Give your toolbar a name and type it under in the place of Custom 1
7. Then where it says “Make toolbar available to:” you can either select normal and you can see your toolbar in any document. Or you can select a particular document which this toolbar should be made available to
8. Then after your toolbar appears to your right go to the Commands tab
9. Here in you can see icons of commands in the “Commands:” section
10. Just drag the necessary icons (the things that you use the most) into your new very own toolbar
11. Just click on Close and you can now start using your very own toolbar that you created yourself!

Now you can either dock your very own toolbar or you can just keep it where you find it’s more convenient.