Introduction / Toolbars
Subtitles of the Movie
The next area of the Excel screen consists of two tool bars. The first is called the standard tool bar and the next is called the formatting tool bar. These two are sandwiched together into one row on the Excel screen. To allow yourself to see more of the buttons from either of the tool bars, you can move the tool bars by resting your pointer on this light grey line to the left of the word 'Arial', and clicking and dragging to the right, or to the left. This causes each tool bar to hide some more of its buttons. Right now I've expanded the entire width of the standard tool bar. As you rest your pointer on a button a tool tip will appear underneath it telling you what command that button is for. Each of the button commands can also be executed through a menu. For instance, this command for open is also up in the file menu. As I click to expand that menu, you will see that command appears here with the button image next to it, indicating that there is a button to execute that command. I'm going to hit escape to make the menu disappear. The rest of the standard tool bar buttons are for doing things that are standard to most workbooks. Commands like cutting, copying and pasting information, apply to all of the workbook in its entirety. I'm now going to move over the formatting tool bar onto the screen. You'll see that these buttons, all will change the appearance of the text on screen in your workbook. For instance, you can make text bold, italic or underline by using these buttons. I'll move this tool bar back to its original position. If you can't see a button that you'd like to get to, and you don't want to move the tool bars physically, there are these arrow buttons at the end of each tool bar. As you click there you'll see the buttons that are currently hidden from view on that tool bar. You'll see another one of these at the end of the formatting tool bar. As I click there you'll see those buttons that are hidden as well. Using this light grey line to the left to the word 'arial', I'm now going to move a tool bar from its position. By clicking and dragging here, I create a floating tool bar that displays all the buttons available for that tool bar. I can now click and drag in the title bar of the tool bar to reposition it anywhere on my screen. You can also anchor this tool bar by clicking and dragging it all the way to the far edge of the screen. For instance if I drag it all the way to the right, it anchors itself in that right hand position to the right of the scroll bar. Going to that light grey line again, I can click and drag to the centre of my screen to release it, and anchor it at the bottom of the screen, or to the left side of the screen as well. I'm now going to move it back to its original position, sandwiched in with the other tool bar. een as well. I'm now going to move it back to its original position, sandwiched in with the other tool bar.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Microsoft Excel 2000 |
| Author: | Lorie Flenner/NMG |
| SKU: | 33101 |
| ISBN: | 1889347868 |
| Release Date: | 1999-11-22 |
| Duration: | 8 hrs / 103 lessons |
| Captions: | For Online University members only |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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