You probably already know how to use toolbars, but you may not know how to modify them. We’re going to quickly go through a few basics before we get into details.

 

First, any toolbar can be moved by placing your mouse over the left hand corner, where the line of vertical dots is. Just place your mouse over this spot until it turns into a four-sided arrow, like this:

 

Then, hold down your left mouse button and drag and drop the toolbar to wherever you want it. You can place toolbars on any side of the screen or in the middle (so they are floating). Here are some examples:

 

 

Toolbars number one (the standard toolbar) and two (the formatting toolbar) are at the top of the screen. Toolbar three (the picture toolbar) has been moved to the right hand side of the screen. Toolbar four (the drawing toolbar) appears at the bottom of the screen by default, but you can move any toolbar there. Toolbar number five (the tables and borders toolbar) has been moved to the left hand side of the screen. And toolbar six, the AutoText toolbar, has been moved to float in the middle of the screen.

 

You can add or remove toolbars by right-clicking on a blank space beside a toolbar, like this:

 

 

 

You can see the same list by clicking the View menu and choosing Toolbars. In either of those lists, you can uncheck a toolbar to hide it, or check it to show it. You can also click the Customize button to add or remove buttons from your toolbars, or change the order of buttons shown.

 

Toolbar customizations, like buttons and positions, are saved so that they remain the same every time you open Word for every document. If you close a toolbar and then re-open it, it will open to the position that you had it last and with the buttons you chose to display. However, if you have multiple documents open and show or hide a toolbar in one document, that change will not reflect in the other documents.