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Toolbars

The Microsoft Excel toolbars group together shortcuts to common commands; these shortcuts take the form of buttons. You can click a toolbar button to quickly apply formatting, save or print a workbook, copy or paste data, or accomplish another of a variety of tasks.

To show or hide a toolbar, open the View menu, select Toolbars, and then select the toolbar you want to show or hide. 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 workbooks.

The Formatting toolbar contains drop-down menus and buttons for applying formatting to worksheets.

By default, these two toolbars appear next to each other, just below the menu bar.