Add Buttons to Create Your Own Shortcuts

You can add buttons to the Office Shortcut Bar to quickly create shortcuts to the applications, documents, and folders that you use most often. To add buttons to the Shortcut Bar, use the procedure shown in the following illustration.

You can also display hidden buttons to create more shortcuts. To see which buttons are available, right-click the Shortcut Bar and then click Customize. On the Buttons tab, select the check boxes for the buttons that you want to display.

Caution   If you don’t want to display a button on the Shortcut Bar but think you might want to display it later, hide the button by right-clicking it and then clicking Hide Button. Deleting a button permanently removes it from the Shortcut Bar.

Microsoft Office Binder button

Combine different types of documents in a single file   Display the Microsoft Office Binder button on the Shortcut Bar so that you can bind together related Microsoft Word documents, Microsoft Excel workbooks, and Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. For more information, see Store and Organize Related Project Files in a Binder.

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