Custom Toolbar Buttons
The majority of MS Office toolbars we see are set to factory standard. The
whole point of a toolbar however, is to customize your work environment. If you
don’t know what a button does, why is it taking up space on your screen?
Right click on any toolbar or menu. You should see Customize… as the last
option on the menu that pops up. When you click there, you should see this
dialog box.
Scroll down through the Categories list box on the Commands tab until you see
Macros. Then drag the smiley face (not my idea!) up to the main toolbar, maybe
next to the currency formatting button ($).
Once you’ve placed it there, right-click on it and find the option Assign
Macro… on the popup menu. A list of available macros will appear including the
one we just created—ToggleFormulas. Choose that one, click OK and close the
dialog box.
Make sure you have a spreadsheet displayed that has some formulas in it and
then click on the button several times to test it.
Be aware that many other functions are already available as buttons in the
customize toolbar dialog box above. Unmerge Cells, Select Visible Cells Only and
Paste Values are common actions that can be placed on the toolbar obviating the
need to go through multiple menus.
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