[ Team LiB ] Creating Your Own Command Bars One of the most powerful features in Office is the capability to customize your workspace so that you can have the tools you need the most at your fingertips and remove the tools you don't use. Creating a Custom Toolbar Creating a custom toolbar is as easy as opening the Customize dialog, selecting the Toolbar tab, and choosing New. Enter a name for your toolbar in the New Toolbar dialog box that appears, click OK, and you've created a new toolbar (see Figure ). For the toolbar to be useful, you. | Team LiB Creating Your Own Command Bars One of the most powerful features in Office is the capability to customize your workspace so that you can have the tools you need the most at your fingertips and remove the tools you don t use. Creating a Custom Toolbar Creating a custom toolbar is as easy as opening the Customize dialog selecting the Toolbar tab and choosing New. Enter a name for your toolbar in the New Toolbar dialog box that appears click OK and you ve created a new toolbar see Figure . For the toolbar to be useful you must add tools to it either by dragging tools from other toolbars or by adding new tools to it. Figure . Use the Toolbars tab to create or delete custom toolbars and to reset the default toolbars to their original settings. By default a new toolbar floats on the screen you ll have to move it to one of the edges of the window if you want it docked. Custom toolbars are listed with the other toolbars when you choose View Toolbars or use a right-click to show the toolbar list. You can use this menu to show or hide your toolbars. Custom toolbars aren t just for the main Outlook window. You can create them for any Outlook folder or form except note forms. When you create folder-specific toolbars only the tools that can be used in that folder will display on your toolbar. For example when you re in the Notes folder a custom Quick Flag toolbar will display without buttons because Notes doesn t support Quick Flags. Adding Tools to Custom Toolbars After you ve created a custom toolbar it s time to add tools to it. Switch to the Commands tab and browse the categories and commands to find the tools you want on your new toolbar. For example if you d like to make a toolbar that contains just the tools you use from the Standard and Advanced toolbars you can drag tools from those two toolbars to create a single custom toolbar. When you re creating hyperlink buttons drag any button from the Commands list or choose one with an icon that will match
