Category: Office 2000
Utilizing the Office Shortcut Bar
The common interface found in all Microsoft Office applications (identical toolbar buttons, menu commands and dialog boxes) reduces the learning curve for mastering each program. If you know how to open and save a file in Word you can do the same in Excel. In addition to a common look and feel, the Office applications share peripheral applications, or mini-programs, such as WordArt, that are called upon to perform a specific function within the main program, but are loaded into memory only when needed. Even the default storage location for your files, the My Documents folder, is the same for all Office applications. Another commonality is the Office Shortcut Bar, which provides you with one-click startup of any of your Office programs. If the Shortcut Bar doesn't appear on your Desktop, you can display it by choose Programs, Microsoft Office Tools, and Microsoft Office Shortcut Bar from the Start menu. To have the Shortcut Bar automatically display each time you start Windows, choose Yes in the message box; choose No if you want to manually turn it on each time. Even though the Office toolbar is shown on the Shortcut Bar by default, you can use another toolbar, such as the Programs toolbar, by right-clicking a blank area on the Shortcut Bar and choosing Programs. You can also customize the Shortcut Bar by adding programs from the Start menu. Drag a program icon from the Start menu to a blank space on the Shortcut Bar.
