Word Toolbars
Word includes a number of built-in toolbars that provide shortcuts to the commands found in the menus. To show or hide a toolbar, open the View menu, select Toolbars, and then select the toolbar you want to show or hide.
Tip:
You can also access the toolbar menu by right-clicking anywhere on a visible toolbar.
The most frequently used toolbars are the Standard toolbar and the Formatting toolbar.
The Standard toolbar contains buttons for opening, saving, printing, and editing documents.
The Formatting toolbar contains drop-down menus and buttons for changing the font and applying formatting to text.
By default, these two toolbars appear next to each other, just below the menu bar.
Other toolbars available in Word are:
- AutoText – Create and insert AutoText.
- Clipboard – View and select the contents of the clipboard.
- Control Toolbox – Insert ActiveX controls into a form.
- Database – Insert and work with data from a Microsoft Access database.
- Drawing – Insert and format drawing objects.
- Forms – Insert form objects.
- Frames – Create framesets and frames for a Web document.
- Picture – Insert and format pictures.
- Reviewing – Insert, edit, and delete comments for or by document reviewers.
- Tables and Borders – Insert and format tables and apply borders to objects.
- Visual Basic – Record and run macros, and work with Microsoft Word Visual Basic code.
- Web – Navigate a Web document.
- Web Tools – Insert Web objects into a Web document.
- WordArt – Insert and format WordArt.
You can customize any of these toolbars by adding and removing buttons, or you can create your own toolbars to group your favorite commands.
