Chapter 20. Customizing Office
Microsoft desperately yearns for the approval of its Office customers and relentlessly strives to disprove the adage, “You can’t please all of the people all of the time.” And just in case Office’s designers didn’t make the program work the way you think it should, they let you tweak it yourself.
Consequently, very few elements of the way you work in Office are set in stone. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint each let you redesign the toolbars and even rework the menus. In Word and Excel, you can also choose different keyboard equivalents for commands. (Only Entourage is off-the-rack software. You can customize its toolbar, but that’s it.)
Even if you’re a novice, customization is worth exploring. There will almost certainly come a day when you wish you could choose an easier function keystroke than the one Microsoft chose, or find yourself repeatedly digging deeply for a submenu command. With this chapter as your guide, you can be your own software tailor.
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