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Craig has attended:
Excel Advanced course

Customizing Toolbars

Question from the Excel Intermediate course:

I liked being able to have icons/toolbars down the left hand side in Excel.

Is it only possible to have toolbars (groups of icons) on the left hand side and not specific individual icons that I would want?

Many thanks

Craig

Edited on Wed 29 Nov 2006, 11:42

RE: Customizing Toolbars

No you would have to have a tool bar running down the left side. You could always create your own tool bar and then add the icon(s)required and then put that on the left side (but you will see the whole left section greyed out, indicating a tool bar)

Excel tip:

Ctrl+d's double life

Suppose I have a formula in B1 that I wish to copy into B2:B10. I can select B1:B10 then press Ctrl+d to copy the formula down the selected range. Users generally ignore this shortcut in favour of double-clicking on the fill handle to copy down, but Ctrl+d is useful sometimes particularly when there is no data in surrounding columns to guide to how far the double-click method should copy formulae.

Ctrl+d has another use though. When I use the drawing toolbar to draw objects such as Text Boxes, Rectangles and Ovals onto a worksheet, Ctrl+d makes an instant duplicate of selected shapes. For example, I need five Text Boxes the same size. I draw one Text box and adjust it to the size I want, select it, then press Ctrl+d four times to get four identical copies.

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