Saving Valuable Toolbar and Screen Space

Summary: Not only does Excel allow you to customize your toolbars, but you can also move commands from the toolbars to your menus. That's right; using the information in this tip you can actually move toolbar buttons from the toolbar to a menu bar. (This tip works with Microsoft Excel 97, Excel 2000, Excel 2002, and Excel 2003.)

You already know that Excel allows you to customize menus and toolbars to your heart's content. However, sometimes your toolbars become too wide, or you may not want to clutter the screen with new, custom toolbars.

Fortunately, Excel allows you to also place toolbar buttons on the menu bar. See that area just to the right of the Help menu? That can be valuable real estate for commonly used toolbar buttons. To move buttons there quickly, follow these steps:

Hold down the Ctrl and Alt keys at the same time.
Use the mouse to drag a toolbar button from its current position to the end of the menu bar.

You can follow these same steps for any other toolbar buttons you want to move. You can also use the standard ways of customizing your display to move toolbar buttons (choose Customize from the Tools menu). Either way, your toolbar buttons are in a unique place where you can always get at them.

ExcelTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Excel training. This tip (2069) applies to Microsoft Excel versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

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