Mail Merge - This is the toolbar that we used in Technology Tip Number 27 to make a mail merged document. Try using them to spruce up your next project! If your working on a project that requires these toolbars you're probably an advanced user.ĭrawing, Picture, Tables and Borders & Word Art - These toolbars are useful when you're adding graphics, lines, borders fancy text or pictures to your Word document. If you're really good at it using a menu like this could be faster than typing everything by hand.Ĭontrol Toolbox, Forms & Database - These toolbars are full of icons that you would use to make online forms, data entry forms and web pages using Word. They have all the most used functions on them, like font style and size, the 'File' and 'Edit' menus, and lots of other commonly used tool bar buttons.ĪutoText - This menu gives you drop down lists that are full of commonly used phrases. Standard & Formatting - If you could only have two toolbars these would be the two you'd want.

So what are all of these toolbars for? Well, here's a quick overview of each one in Microsoft Word: Go to ' View' on the menu bar and select ' Toolbars' then select the toolbars you want. However, it is still important to be familiar with these older toolbar layouts also as they continue to be used in other word processing software. Please note that this tip is specific to the older version (pre-2007) of Microsoft Word. But how to you make them appear and disappear? Today's technology tip will help you with that problem and also show you how to find all the tool bars you could ever want. They're called tool bars and they're full of all the little icons that make it easier to use programs like Word.

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