Using Toolbars and Menu Items

The Menu in Microsoft Word has commands to do almost all of the tasks we want.
Toolbars contain “shortcut” icons for the same commands.
Toolbars hold all the icons we find near and dear. For different tasks there are different
toolbars. The most commonly used tools are in the Standard and Formatting toolbars. I
also find that the Drawing toolbar is frequently helpful.

Command = OPEN shortcut Icon =

TOOLBARS:

Menu and Formatting Toolbar

Standard Toolbar

Drawing Toolbar

Toolbars can be moved anywhere along the edge of the screens, or as floating entities. To
do this with any toolbars, find the many short lines at the far left of the toolbar, click, and
drag
To it to
find outanother location
what some of the toolbar icons do, hold your mouse over the icon you are
interested in and a label will pop up telling you what the icon does. Those that have little
downward pointing arrows next to them have options to choose from.

Toolbar Options If you cannot find the icon you are looking for, check to see if has
been hidden away in Toolbar Options at the far right of the
toolbar (looks like double arrows >>). Click on the arrows to see
more icons.

New Words: Practice. Complete the statements.

Menú hide (hidden) 1. A synonym for command is _____________________

Command hold 2. A Toolbar is ___________, that is you can change its
Task choose position or place.
Shortcut look for 3. A synonyms for task is _______________
Icon find 4. The ___________ is a little button for a particular task.
Helpful mouse. 5. There are three basic toolbars: ____________________,
Screen instruction __________________ and ______________________.
Label movable 6. Another term for drag is _________________
Option job 7. You cannot see a ____________ object.
Arrow move