Adjust Your Screen Workspace

Perhaps the easiest way to customize Office applications is to adjust the amount of screen area available for your work. One way to make more screen area available is to hide toolbars that you don’t need. Click Toolbars (View menu). Toolbars with a check mark next to them appear on screen; from these, click the ones you want to hide.

In each Office application, you can also select specific screen elements to hide or display by clicking Options (Tools menu). On the View tab, set the options you want.

Maximize the screen area in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word   Click Full Screen (View menu) to remove everything except your workbook or document. To access commands on the menu bar, point to the top of the screen and then click the command you want. To return to the previous view, click the Close Full Screen button. Save and print different views in Microsoft Excel   Click Custom Views (View menu) to create different views of a worksheet or workbook so that you can see your data with different display options. You can display, print, and store different views without saving them as separate sheets. Want to view your file without the dots, lines, and paragraph marks?   In Word, PowerPoint, and Microsoft Excel, you can determine which nonprinting elements (such as spaces, gridlines, page breaks, field codes, and formulas) you want displayed. Click Options (Tools menu), and on the View tab, set the options you want. Zoom box Is the text on your screen too small?   Use the Zoom box to magnify the display up to 400 percent for easy reading. In Microsoft Access, make sure you are in the print preview or layout preview view. Customize the Office Assistant   If you choose to display the Assistant while you’re working, you can change the way in which the Assistant appears on the screen. You can also customize the kind of help that the Assistant provides. For more information, see For Help, Ask the Office Assistant.

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Want to know more?   Look up Getting Results - Customize Office in Help.