Help- View - Customise Toolbars & Menus

[myresolve]

Hi i need somebody to explain what happens with their Word 2008 when they click view-customise toolbars...and try to click the small font option that pops up under the large inaccessible font menu option. I get some kind of small box come up called 'Command Properties' and 'Fo&nt'. I'm guessing maybe i dragged it out somewhere as you can and now the link is damaged... I hope this message is understandable. Thanks in advance all.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Hi i need somebody to explain what happens with their Word 2008 when they
click view-customise toolbars...and try to click the small font option that
pops up under the large inaccessible font menu option. I get some kind of
small box come up called 'Command Properties' and 'Fo&nt'. I'm guessing
maybe i dragged it out somewhere as you can and now the link is damaged... I
hope this message is understandable. Thanks in advance all.

What you're seeing is:

The "small font option" is the proxy toolbar for the Menu Bar. Any
changes you make to that bar will be reflected in the Menu when you
click OK in the "Customize Toolbars and Menus" dialog.

"Font" is a command control which produces a dropdown list of installed
fonts. You can't change the behavior of that control (i.e, selecting
which fonts are displayed), but you can set its properties, just like
any other command/control in the menus, which is why you see the
"Command Properties" dialog pop up when you double-click the
command/control.

There's only two properties that you can change:

(a) the name (by default, "Fo&nt", where the &n indicates that, in
Windows, you can use the "n" key to select the Font control when using
alt-keystroke shortcuts)

(b) the Begin Group checkbox. This will place a separator line to the
left of the Font control on the proxy toolbar. In a Mac menu bar,
however, it won't show up.

 

[myresolve]

Hey very much appreciated, so what i'm seeing is just normal? Maybe i can get some sleep now thanks for the great explanation.

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

There's only two properties that you can change:

(a) the name (by default, "Fo&nt", where the &n indicates that, in
Windows, you can use the "n" key to select the Font control when using
alt-keystroke shortcuts)

(b) the Begin Group checkbox. This will place a separator line to the
left of the Font control on the proxy toolbar. In a Mac menu bar,
however, it won't show up.

Another thing you can do is paste a different picture for the button.

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
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[JE McGimpsey]

Another thing you can do is paste a different picture for the button.

Though not for a top-level main menu control like Font, unless I'm
missing something...

 

[myresolve]

Thanks guys i'm glsd to hear it's ok.

 

[Mark Strom]

I cannot customize the menus in Word 2008 on my Mac AT ALL. The option Customize Toolbar and Menu simply doesn't exist on my View menu -- it does for PPT and Excel but not Word. Do I have a faulty copy -- or is this a general fault?

 

[Bob Greenblatt]

I cannot customize the menus in Word 2008 on my Mac AT ALL. The option
Customize Toolbar and Menu simply doesn't exist on my View menu -- it does for
PPT and Excel but not Word. Do I have a faulty copy -- or is this a general
fault?

Have you tried right clicking (control click) on the tool bar?