The Default Display for Command Bars

The Default Display for Command Bars In the Microsoft Office applications, toolbars and menus are known as command bars.
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The Default Display for Command Bars[ Team LiB ]The Default Display for Command BarsIn the Microsoft Office applications, toolbars and menus are known as command bars.The differences between menus and toolbars are blurred, and you can have menus onyour toolbars and buttons on the menu bar.Habits are hard to break, so most people still refer to commands and command bars asbuttons, toolbars, and menus based on what they do. A button is pressed, a toolbar hasbuttons on it, menus fly out when pressed, and menu bars have only menus on them. Using the mouse to select commands, including navigating submenus, is slower for many typists because of the need to move your hand from the keyboard and pick up the mouse. Using shortcut keys is easier for many touch-typists and navigating the menus using the arrow keys is faster than using the mouse.Outlooks command bars are highly configurable and creating custom toolbars with yourfrequently used commands will help you work faster. As youll see later in this hour,creating your own toolbars is fun and easy, and its something that anyone can do.When Outlook is first started, youll see the menu bar at the top of the window and theStandard toolbar immediately under it. At the far right of the menu bar is the Ask aQuestion box. Along with the Standard toolbar, all Outlook items have an Advancedtoolbar, as shown in Figure 16.1. The Advanced toolbar is not shown by default, but Irecommend showing it because it contains several useful tools (right-click the toolbararea and click Advanced). If you want to save screen space, the Standard and Advancedtoolbars can share a row. Figure 16.1. Standard and Advanced toolbars are the default command bars used by Outlook. These command bars contain the basic commands you need to work with each item type. The tools vary for each folder type. If you upgraded a previous version of Outlook, your previous toolbar settings should be retained.The buttons and menus shown by default vary depending on the folder type, with thebasic commands used by the item type available on the default toolbars. All Outlookfolders and forms include a Standard toolbar, and Advanced and Web toolbars, which arenot shown by default.Each Outlook item type uses a different set of toolbars containing the tools Microsoftthinks youll use the most for that item type. Notes are the exception—there are notoolbars or menus on the note form. The menus and toolbars youll see when youcompose a message depend on whether youre using Word or Outlooks native editor foremail. See the hours about email (Hour 4), calendar (Hour 11), contacts (Hour 10), tasks (Hour 12), and the journal (Hour 13) to learn more about the commands specific to each Outlook item type.Although Outlook has only one menu bar, you can create as many toolbars as youd likeand put the menus on it. You can also put toolbar buttons on the menu bar. The menu barcant be disabled, but you can remove menus from it and replace them with other toolbuttons, if desired.The menu bar and toolbars are positioned at the top of the screen by default, but you candock them on any edge of the Outlook window, including on the left or right side in avertical position, or have the toolbars float on the screen.[ Team LiB ]