How to Customize Quick Access toolbar in MS Word

Posted on Sept 6, 2008

The design of Word 2007 is significantly different from previous versions of Word. So it is understandable that frequently used commands are difficult to find.Long-time users of Word may find the Ribbon disorienting. But the Quick Access toolbar puts important commands a mouse-click away.

When you install Word 2007, only three commands appear on the Quick Access toolbar: Save, Undo, and Redo.Fortunately, you can add more commands to the Quick Access toolbar. You won’t want to add too many, as this could slow you down.

 

 

To add a command to the Quick Access toolbar, click the downward-pointing arrow beside the toolbar.You can select from any of the commands that appear. Or, you can click More Commands if you don’t see the one you would like to add.

In the box labeled “Choose commands from,” select a category. In the box below that, select a command. Click OK

 

  

The command will appear on the Quick Access toolbar.

 

 

 Now you have your own set of commands in there.

Make your own Custom Title Styles in MS Word 2007

Posted on Aug 25, 2008

This tutorial will show you how to create a custom style for a Title in MS Word 2007. Sometimes after formatting a heading, you have to change the paragraph style back to Normal manually but you can get rid of this by creating custom Title styles and let the Word do the rest for you.

Here's how you can do this>>>

• Press Ctrl+N to create a new document and type anything say My Title
• Change the font size to say 20 points.
• Select My Title and Press Ctrl+B and Ctrl +E to make it bold and centre align.
• click on Home and click on Styles dialog button located in the bottom right corner of the Styles group

• Click on the New Style button given in the bottom left corner of the Task Pane(see above screenshot)
• Type My Title Style in the Name field.
• In the Style for following Paragraph drop-down list, choose Normal.
  
• At the bottom of this dialog box you can see two options : 1. Only in this Document 2.New Documents based on this Template. If you want to apply this Custom Title Style in the current document only then select the first option and if you want to have this Custom Title Style to be available in all the Documents you work with select option 2.
  

• Click on OK
• The My Title Style style should appear in your Task Pane. Now the next time when you type a title text, click My Title Style style in the Styles Task pane. Word automatically formats the title text for you. When you press Enter to begin typing the next paragraph, Word will automatically switch back to the Normal style. You can use the same procedure for creating custom headings that can save your precious time while defining styles and a lot of keystrokes.