OL98: How to Customize Toolbars and Menus

ID: Q182571

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SUMMARY

This article provides a overview of the basic procedures used to customize menus and toolbars in Microsoft Outlook.


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The procedures outlined below include the following topics:

About Customizing Toolbars

Menus, commands on the menus, and toolbar buttons are specific to the view that is currently displayed; to ensure that you are modifying the correct command, you may need to display a different folder.

For example, If you want to add a button to execute the Task Request command, and you add the button while viewing the Task folder, that command will only be available in that folder.

Customizing Toolbars and Menus

The following customizations require that the Customize dialog box be open to activate the toolbar and menu customization functions. To open the Customize dialog box, point to Toolbars on the View menu and click Customize. A bold I-beam mouse pointer shows insertion positions on the toolbars and menus.

Adding a Button to a Toolbar

  1. On the Commands tab, in the Categories list, click to select the category for the command you want to add.


  2. Drag the command you want from the Commands list to the toolbar.


Adding a Custom Menu to a Toolbar

  1. In the Categories list, click New Menu.


  2. Drag New Menu from the Commands list to the toolbar.


  3. Right-click the new menu on the toolbar and on the shortcut menu, type a name in the Name box, and then press ENTER.


Adding a Command to the Custom Menu

  1. Click the custom menu on the toolbar to display an empty box.


  2. In the Categories list, click the category for the command box.


  3. Drag the command from the Commands box to the empty box in the custom menu.


Adding a Command to the Custom Menu on the Toolbar

  1. In the Categories list, click the category for the command you want to add.


  2. Drag the command you want from the Commands box over the menu on the toolbar. When the menu drops to display a list of menu commands, point to the location where you want the command to appear on the menu, and then release the mouse button.


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Version           : WINDOWS:98
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbhowto

Last Reviewed: July 28, 1999