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.
In an Office program that uses the standard menu structure, click to open the File menu.
Click a command that has a right-pointing arrow to see the contents of the submenu.
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.
Continue exploring the different menus in this and other Office programs.
To close a menu without executing a command, click outside the menu.
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.
If a button looks "pressed," click it again if you want to turn off that feature.
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.
"Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar" for information about modifying the Quick Access toolbar in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access, and in the Outlook Editor.