Customizing a Toolbar

You can completely change Excel to reflect how you want to do your work. One of the elements of the program you can change is the toolbars. You can add, remove, or edit buttons that appear on any toolbar. To customize a toolbar, follow these steps:

1. Choose Customize from the Tools menu. Excel displays the Customize dialog box.
2. Make sure the Toolbars tab is selected. (Click here to see a related figure.)
3. In the list of toolbars, make sure the toolbars you want to edit are selected.
4. Click on the Commands tab. (Click here to see a related figure.)
5. In the list of Categories, select the major category which contains the command you want to add to the toolbar.
6. In the list of Commands, select the command you want to add to the toolbar.
7. Use the mouse to drag the command from the Commands list to its new location on the toolbar. When you release the mouse button, the icon or wording for the command appears.
8. Repeat steps 5 through 7 to add new toolbar commands.
9. Click on Close to dismiss the Customize dialog box.