Add frequently used commands to your Quick Access Toolbar (Office 2007)

Microsoft Office 2007's interface doesn't allow for much customization. If you loved your custom toolbars in previous versions, the ribbon interface might give you a rude awakening. After all, you can customize toolbars that don't exist! But you can add commands that you use frequently to your Quick Access Toolbar, which resides to the right of the Office button. By default, the Quick Access Toolbar includes icons that let you save a document, undo an action, and redo an action.

To add more actions to your Quick Access Toolbar, click on the dropdown arrow on its right side. You can add common icons, such as New, Open, Quick Print, and Print Preview.

In addition, you can choose More Commands from the dropdown list to open the Options window. From there, you can add several commands that don't appear on the dropdown list. Just select a tab from the Choose Commands From dropdown list to find commands that you want to add to your Quick Access Toolbar. Then, click the Add button to shift the command to the right-hand list box, which displays all of the commands on your Quick Access Toolbar currently.

You can use this technique in all of the Office 2007 applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.