Article ID: 290944
Article Last Modified on 1/31/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Office Word 2003
- Microsoft Word 2002 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q290944
For a Microsoft Word 2000 version of this article, see 230053.
For a Microsoft Word 97 version of this article, see 155800.
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SUMMARY
This article explains how to create a new menu, customize an existing menu, and restore built-in menus in Microsoft Office Word 2003 and in Microsoft Word 2002.
To Reset All Menus to Their Defaults
- On the Tools menu, click Customize.
- Click the Toolbars tab.
- In the Toolbars list, click Menu Bar. Do not click to clear the Menu Bar check box.
- Click Reset.
Word displays the Reset Toolbar dialog box with the following message:Reset changes made to 'Menu Bar' toolbar for:
Normal.dot - Click Close.
To Add a New Menu
- On the Tools menu, click Customize.
- Click the Commands tab.
- In the Categories list, click New Menu.
- In the Commands list, click New Menu.
- Drag New Menu from the Commands list to the menu bar. Release the mouse button when you see a vertical bar indicating the position of the new menu.
- Right-click New Menu on the menu bar, type a name in the Name box, and then press ENTER.
- Click Close.
NOTE: To add commands to the menu, follow the steps in the To Add an Item to a Menu section of this article.
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To Add an Item to a Menu
- On the Tools menu, click Customize.
- Click the Commands tab.
- In the Categories list, click the menu that you want to customize. For example, click View on the menu bar.
- In the Commands box, click the command that you want to add to the View menu. For example, click View Field Codes.
- Drag View Field Codes to the View menu. Release the mouse button when you see a horizontal bar indicating the location on the menu where the command will be inserted.
- Click Close.
To Remove an Item from a Menu
- On the Tools menu, click Customize.
- Click a command (on any of your toolbars, for example).
- Drag the command that you want to remove into the document.
- Click Close.
To Modify Text or Change a Button Image on a Menu
- On the Tools menu, click Customize.
- Click a command.
- Right-click the Menu command.
- Select an action on the menu.
- Click Close.
To Restore a Menu That You Deleted
- On the Tools menu, click Customize.
- Click the Commands tab.
- In the Categories list, click Built-In Menus.
- In the Commands list, click the command that you want to add to the menu bar. For example, if you deleted the View menu, click View.
- Drag View from the Commands box to the menu bar. Release the mouse button when you see a vertical bar indicating the position of the menu.
- Click Close.
REFERENCES
For more information about how to customize and create toolbars and toolbar buttons, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
291292 How to work with toolbars and toolbar buttons: add, create, edit, delete, restore, and more in Word 2002
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