Deleting Menu Items

Summary: Excel allows a user to delete unused menu items. (This tip works with Microsoft Excel 97, Excel 2000, Excel 2002, and Excel 2003.)

Excel is remarkable in both its flexibility and capabilities for customization. This includes allowing you to completely change the menus within Excel, if you so desire. For instance, you may want to delete a menu item so it cannot be selected by other people using your computer. To delete an item from a menu, follow these steps:

Select Customize from the Tools menu. You will see the Customize dialog box. (Click here to see a related figure.)
Click on the menu from which you want to delete a menu item. (Not in the Customize dialog box, but actually within Excel while the Customize dialog box is open.) This displays the menu.
Drag the item you want deleted off of the menu.
Repeat steps 2 and 3 to delete additional menu items.
Click on Close in the Customize dialog box when done.

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