Customizing Your Menus and Toolbars Outlook now has two methods you can use to customize toolbars to show the buttons and menus you use the most and to remove the ones you don't use | Team LiB Customizing Your Menus and Toolbars Outlook now has two methods you can use to customize toolbars to show the buttons and menus you use the most and to remove the ones you don t use. If you ve customized toolbars in older versions of Office you re familiar with the first method in which you drag menus and buttons around with the mouse. Choose Tools Customize to open the Customize dialog to create customized toolbars see Figure . Select the Toolbars tab to make a new toolbar Commands to add new buttons and menus to your toolbars or Options to configure display options such as personalized menus and icon sizes. Figure . Use the Customize dialog to create customized toolbars. While the Customize dialog is open you re in Edit mode and the normal actions of the buttons and menus are disabled. The second method of customizing toolbars is the Rearrange Commands button found by choosing the Customize Commands menu selection. The Rearrange Commands option is new to Office 2003 and gives users the opportunity to use an interface to add delete or move commands. Rearrange Commands keeps the menu in view until you re finished editing it which is especially helpful when you re editing submenus. Get in the habit of creating new toolbars for your customizations rather than adding custom buttons or menus to the default toolbars. It s too easy to reset the default toolbars before realizing you have custom tools on them. Using Rearrange Commands Option Rearrange Commands is a new way to customize tools in Office 2003. Open the Customize dialog using Tools Customize and look for the Rearrange Commands button on the Commands tab. You ll see a dialog like the one shown in Figure . Figure . Rearrange Commands provides a simple interface for customizing command bars. Using the Rearrange Commands menu do the following 1. Choose the menu or toolbar you want to rearrange by selecting the Menu Bar or Toolbar radio button. 2. Choose the menu or toolbar from the .
