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How the Quick Access Toolbar looks depends entirely on your personal customization. Basically, the Quick Access Toolbar allows you to have frequently used commands right at your fingertips and have them readily available so that you don't have to go through a lot of clicking between groups or tabs. You can add more commands into the Quick Access Toolbar as you please by simply checking them. So you can pretty much take any command that's available in Microsoft Word 2013, and then put that on the Quick Access Toolbar. This functionality provides a sort of cut-down version of customizing the Ribbon. For more details on how to do all of these, watch!

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Welcome back to our course on Word 2013. In this section, we’re going to look at the Quick Access Toolbar. In the preceding section, we looked at the Ribbon and to the top left of the Ribbon, right in the top left hand corner of the word Window, you’ll see the Quick Access Toolbar or to be more precise you’ll see a version of the Quick Access Toolbar because exactly what you see there depends on your local customization.

Now if you look to the right of this sort of sequence of buttons that are part of the Quick Access Toolbar, there is a drop down arrow, click on that, and you see a list of commands. Some of them are checked, some of them are not. In my installation here, Save is checked, Undo is checked, Redo is checked, and Touch/Mouse Mode is checked. And they are the four buttons that I can see on the toolbar: Save, Undo, Redo, and Touch/Mouse Mode.

As you see there are several other buttons that I could check if I wanted to. So for instance, if I wanted to have an Open button, all I need to do is to check Open and you’ll see the screen tip there, Add to Quick Access Toolbar. I now have an additional button, an Open file, Open Word document button available. Now I can do the same for any of the standard options here and I use the opposite approach to remove something from the toolbar. So if I didn’t want the Redo button, all I do is uncheck it and it’s removed from the Quick Access Toolbar. So in a nutshell that’s what the Quick Access Toolbar is about. It’s very much personal preference which commands you enable on the Quick Access Toolbar. I would usually have Save enabled because I like to save my work a lot as I go.

And for somebody like me who makes a lot of mistakes, Undo is a great option. We’ll come back to Undo in a little while if you’re not familiar with it. The ability to switch between touch and mouse mode may be if you either always use touch or always use mouse you don’t really need a quick way of switching between them. But by default that is delivered enabled as part of Word 2013.

The other important part about the Quick Access Toolbar, if I just click on the Customize button at the end again, is that right down one from the bottom it says More Commands. And if you select More Commands, you get yet another page of the Word Options that we haven’t looked at so far and that’s the Quick Access Toolbar page. Now this provides a sort of cut down version of customizing the Ribbon. This is customizing the Quick Access Toolbar. And this lets you put additional commands on to the Quick Access Toolbar. At the moment, I’ve just got those four on the right there: Save, Undo, Touch/Mouse Mode, and Open. I can pretty much take any command that’s available, and there are a lot of commands in Word 2013, and put that on the Quick Access Toolbar. So I’ve got the popular commands list here. What about All Commands? Now that is a long list.

If I went down All Commands and choose something let’s suppose I choose the command Bold. If I select that and then click Add, I will have a Bold command added to the Quick Access Toolbar. Click on OK and I’ve now got that B which basically says if I choose some text, I’m going to choose the word World, and click on that B that text is made bold. And that’s exactly what’s happened there.

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