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Customizing Toolbars. As we have noted in a couple of different tutorials, toolbars are a really important part of your PowerPoint life, after all they make PowerPoint easier to use, they make your work faster, and they give you the options that you need directly in front of you in a button format. However, did you know that you can also customize a toolbar and make one your own? For example, you might think: well, when I look at all these toolbars, they are all great, but you know I use a couple of features off several of them. Wouldn't it be great if I can make my own toolbar and customize it? Well, you can; simply click view, go to toolbars, and then go to the customize option at the bottom of the dialog box, and what this does is open a customize toolbar option. If you click on the toolbars, you will see the basic toolbars listed here that are checked, and these are the ones that you are using. However, you can also manage some additional toolbars, such as a 3-D settings toolbar, or shadow settings, or shortcut menus, tables and borders, or you can click new and create your own toolbar. I am going to call this my toolbar and click OK, and what I have done is just created a custom toolbar that I can put in my list. At this point, what I want to do then is take a look at that toolbar, and edit it anyway that I want to. Now what you do is take a look at the commands that you see, and to add a command to the toolbar, select a category, and then drag the command out of the dialog box into the toolbar. For example, here is a toolbar that I just made. You see it appears right directly on my desktop part of my interface and it's my toolbar, but there is nothing on it because I haven't actually put any commands on it. So lets say that I want to combine a couple of different things. For example, I want to put the font option on my toolbar. I just drag it to it and release, and I continue doing this to add different buttons to my custom toolbar. Let's say that I want to add something from drawing. I just select that category and then start dragging the items that I want, and I can continue doing this over and over again until I have my own custom toolbar, and you can see here it is. Basically what this does then, it gives me a toolbar with the buttons on it that I need; I can then put this toolbar anywhere I want to, and the options that I wanted are all in one simple place, and this is a great way to combine two or three different toolbar options, and put everything that you need on one line within PowerPoint so that you can easily get to it. There are a couple of additional options that you might want to note about personalized menus and toolbars; and the default things here are probably all that you need, but let's take a quick look at them. First of all, "show standard and formatting toolbars on two rows" is selected by default, and this is your toolbar here and your formatting toolbar is here so they always look the same. Then you can have "always show full menus." If you click that option, you will always see the complete menus, or you can show short menus; and other options include use large icons instead of small icons; as you can see, that's a little bit much; or you can use "list font names in their font," take that off as well; and "show screen tips on toolbars" - what this means is when you hover your mouse over a toolbar option, a little pop-out text appears telling you what the toolbar button is, that way you don't have to guess. So you might want to leave that one put, but as you can see these are basic screen tip options and basic customization options that you can take a look at. The important thing to remember is that, anytime, you can come back and organize an existing toolbar or create your own toolbar by clicking the new button, then simply go to commands, find the commands that you want, and drag them to the new toolbar, and this allows you a lot of flexibility to create your own toolbar, to customize the interface in a way that works for you as you are building PowerPoint presentations.