
When you first open Excel there are two toolbars displayed, the Standard toolbar and the Formatting toolbar. If the toolbar you want to display is not there you can press the Customise button at the bottom and select the Toolbars tab to get a full list. The ticks show all the toolbars that are currently displayed on the screen. To quickly display another toolbar select (View > Toolbars) and select the toolbar from the sub menu. You can re-position any of the toolbars using the mouse and they can be docked to any side of the application window. The image that appears next to a command on a drop-down menu is usually an indication that this command also exists on a toolbar.Įxcel contains two main menu bars, over fifty pre-defined toolbars and over fifty pre-defined shortcut menus. Toolbars offer quick shortcuts to commonly used commands and can be moved and repositioned. A menu (or drop-down menu) is the way in which actions can be performed.Ī toolbar is just a collection of icons that provides a shortcut to using a drop-down menu.
