Consolidate Your Toolbars into a Custom Toolbar
The Problem:
I use buttons on about 10 different toolbars, and between them they're turning the document window into a document porthole.
The Solution:
Word has plenty of toolbars, as you say, and you can save valuable screen space by consolidating the buttons you use onto a single toolbareither an existing toolbar or (usually better) a custom toolbar. Here's how to create a custom toolbar:
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Display all the toolbars that you normally use.
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Choose Tools
Customize and click the Toolbars tab. -
Click the New button, type a name for the new toolbar, verify that the "Make Toolbar Available to" drop-down list shows the appropriate document or template (again, Normal.dot is usually the best bet here), and click the OK button.
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Click the Close button to close the Customize dialog box.
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Hold down Ctrl+Alt and drag each desired button from the other toolbars to the new custom toolbar. To rearrange the buttons on the new toolbar, hold down the Alt key and drag a button. To create a separator line between buttons, drag the righthand button a short distance to the right (or drag the lower button down a short distance if the toolbar is vertical rather than horizontal).