Menus

Tips, Tricks, and Answers

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Adding a Font Menu
You can customize Word so it includes a Fonts menu.

Adding Your Own Menu Items
You can customize Word to your heart's content. One way to customize the program is by adding options to the Word menus. It is easier than you think, and you can make the additions any time you want. Just follow the steps in this tip.

Animated Menus
Want to be entertained by Word? Just turn on menu animation and you can see different effects applied to the menus as they appear and disappear on the screen.

Changing the Context (Shortcut) Menus
The dynamic Context menus in Word are very helpful in accomplishing a wide variety of tasks. If you want to make changes to those Context menus, it isn't exactly obvious how you go about those changes. This tip discusses the process.

Deleting Menu Items
There are several ways you can customize the menus in Word. You can even delete menu items very quickly using the shortcut shown in this tip.

Disappearing Macro Menus
Word is quite versatile in how you can customize it. You can add all sorts of macros to menus, but doing so may cause problems down the road. For instance, what do you do if your menus suddenly disappear? This tip discusses possible causes and how you can deal with this problem.

Displaying Path Names in the Menu Bar
Want the full path name for a document? Easily add it to a menu bar.

Floating Menus
Some of the secondary menus used in Word can be made into floating toolbars, if you know the trick. It's not that hard; just click on the bar at the top of the menu and drag it to a new location, as described in this tip.

Keeping Full Menus Displayed
Word allows menus to be displayed in two modes. The default mode, which displays menu options dynamically, drives some people nuts. So, Word provides a way you can turn off dynamic menus. What are you to do, though, when the menu change doesn't "stick?" This tip describes some factors that may be causing the loss of static menus.

Making Macros Readily Available
Create a Macros menu to make your most common macros immediately available.

Problem with Menus Crashing Word
What do you do if, one day, one of your Word menus suddenly stops working and actually crashes the program? Here's the details of what one Word user did to solve the problem.

Resetting Menus to Their Default
After a few weeks, months, or years of editing Word's menus, you may forget what the original menus looked like. Don't despair; there is a quick and easy way to return individual menus to their default state.

The Case of the Vanished Menu Bar
Has your Word menu bar disappeared? This tip explains how you can restore the menu bar to its rightful place at the top of your screen.