Reader Ryan writes in with a neat Mac OS X customization. He says: "The toolbar on top of the finder is somewhat limited and there may be more actions you want to perform while browsing through your ...

If you work with Microsoft Word 2011, you may find the program’s toolbars and ribbon practical ways to access functions you use often, such as formatting, alignment, and highlighting. But the toolbars ...

This quick tutorial steps through the process of creating a Word toolbar to consolidate particular commands or execute specialized tasks. The menu bar and toolbars that are built into Word 2003 and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Use Microsoft Word every day? Millions do, simply taking the way its developers designed the program’s menus as the way it has to be. With a few ...

Toolbars in macOS make performing common tasks much easier in apps, but you can make them better. He's how to arrange them to your liking. Ever since the Mac debuted in 1984, macOS windows have ...

Reader Barbara Van Gorder misses some of the cosmetic features found in earlier versions of Microsoft Word. She writes: In older versions of Word there were pictures on the toolbar for cut and paste.

There’s a temptation especially when first using a new Mac to use applications as-is. But many advantages are waiting — sometimes, you just need to customize a few options. A great application with ...

I use just a handful of functions in Microsoft Office’s toolbar menus. Is there some way to shorten the dropdown list or add the ones I frequently need? Yes, to both questions. If all you want to do ...

Many switchers to Mac OS X have the same question: "how can I customize my application toolbars?" While this is fairly straightforward in Windows, Mac OS X makes it much easier. Just open the ...

To help readers follow the instructions in this article, we use two different typefaces. Boldface type is used to identify the names of icons, agendas and URLs. Sans serif type indicates commands and ...