Guest Author - Chris Curtis

The default toolbars in the MS Office suite include the Standard and the Format toolbars. The MS Office Program is reasonably intuitive and will open the appropriate tool bar when you execute a menu command by clicking on a menu or toolbar button. For example, when you execute the command for Word Art, the Word Art toolbar is automatically displayed. However, there are certain toolbars that you might want to have opened as a matter of course depending on your work habits. If you tend to use a lot of tables while working in MS Word, then you might open the Tables and Borders toolbar. In PowerPoint, it is helpful for working with graphics to have the drawing toolbar open.

There are two methods for opening toolbars in the MS Office suite:
1. Right click on the grey area beside the Standard and Formatting Toolbars; then, select the toolbar you want to have displayed on the program desktop.
2. Select Tools | Customize from the main menu; click on the toolbar tab; and make you toolbar selection by clicking on the option box beside your choice. Click on OK to close the dialog box and the toolbar will be displayed on your program desktop.