Tool Bars

[Douglas_H]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

I've given up on Word Help in the 2008 version, so thank God for the advice in Mactopia.

Here's my "burning" question: How can I post a separator between tool buttons in a tool bar? I used to be able to do it in earlier versions of Word for the Mac.

 

[Michel Bintener]

While in the Customise Toolbars dialogue, select the icon in front of which
you'd like to have a separator, then drag it slightly to the right to make
the blue divider line appear on the right side of the currently selected
icon. Let go, and you should have a separator between these adjacent icons.
Similarly, if you select the icon and move the blue line to the *left*, you
can get rid of the separator.

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

I've given up on Word Help in the 2008 version, so thank God for the advice in
Mactopia.

Here's my "burning" question: How can I post a separator between tool buttons
in a tool bar? I used to be able to do it in earlier versions of Word for the
Mac.

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:mac (Entourage & Word)

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[CyberTaz]

Hi Douglas -

I haven't looked at the 2008 Help on this subject, but generally the Office
2008 Help is lacking right now They are working on it but until this
topic is expanded I can understand how it may be one of the least "helpful".

The first issue is that you can't add/remove separators directly on the
Standard toolbar even though it can be customized otherwise... But I'll come
back to this shortly.

For any other built-in toolbar (the bar must be floating rather than Docked
while in the Customize dialog) or Custom toolbar you can Control-Click a
button to select its Properties, then add/remove a check in the Begin a
Group box. [There may be a few commands that don't allow this to be changed
but I can't recall for sure - or which ones.]

Now, as for the Standard toolbar: Move the button whose Group property you
want to modify to any floating bar, modify its Property as above, then move
it back to the desired position on Standard.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac