Using Menus and Toolbars

If menus are gateways to the power of your programs, toolbars are shortcuts to the most frequently used features that you access from the menus. Stored within the menus are keyboard shortcuts that speed up your work. And there are even special context-sensitive shortcut menus that pop up right in the middle of your work when you right-click the mouse button. To make your work quick and easy in Publisher and in parts of Outlook, the menus and toolbars all use the same basic structure, with customizations for each program.

Explore the Menus

  1. In an Office program that uses the standard menu structure, click to open the File menu.

  2. Click a command that has a right-pointing arrow to see the contents of the submenu.

  3. Click a menu name to open another menu, and take a look at the items listed. The icon at the left of a menu item is the toolbar button you can use to execute that command. The text at the right of the command is the keyboard shortcut for the command.

  4. Continue exploring the different menus in this and other Office programs.

  5. To execute any command, click it.

  6. To close a menu without executing a command, click outside the menu.

    Explore the Menus
    Explore the Menus

Tip

Tip

To open a menu without using the mouse, press and release the Alt key, and then press the underlined letter in the menu name. Then, to execute a command, press the underlined letter in the command name.

Use the Toolbars

  1. Point to a button on the toolbar and wait for a ScreenTip, showing the button’s name, to appear. Click the button to execute that action.

  2. If a button looks "pressed," click it again if you want to turn off that feature.

  3. If the toolbar shares a single line with another toolbar and is truncated—that is, part of it isn’t visible—click the right-pointing arrows to display the hidden buttons.

    Use the Toolbars

See Also

See Also

"Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar" for information about modifying the Quick Access toolbar in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access, and in the Outlook Editor.

Use the Shortcut Menus

  1. Right-click any content or location in your program where you want to execute an action.

  2. Choose the action you want from the context-sensitive shortcut menu that appears.

    Use the Shortcut Menus

Tip

Tip

Items that are grayed on menus or toolbars are items that aren’t available at the moment. For example, if you haven’t copied anything, the Paste button is grayed because there’s nothing to paste.

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