The first time I ran Microsoft Office 2007 I experienced somewhat of a shock.  “Where the heck was everything”.  While innovative; the ribbon menu of Office 2007 was a dramatic change from the menu system of prior versions of Office.  I suddenly have to relearn how to do simple things such as print the document.  I really missed the icons on the toolbar that allowed me to do common tasks with the click of a mouse.  You can do this in Office 2007, but you will need to do some configuration.  The steps I’m showing are for Word 2007 but Excel and PowerPoint have similar steps.

Step 1. Open Word Options

First you need to click on the “Microsoft Office Button” (The Microsoft Office logo that is actually a button) and select “Word Options”.  Because it is detached from the rest of the menu, many users overlook the Word Options button.  However Word Options is very useful.

Step 2.  Choose Customize

The next step is rather easy you simply choose Customize in the menu.  From this menu you can access many useful settings for office.  For example, If you choose Save in the menu you can change the default format to save files from docx to Word 97-2003 files.  If you select Proofing you can change the settings for the Spelling and Grammar Checker.

Step 3. Customize you Quick Access Toolbar

You can select items from among the various commands and add them to your Quick Access Toolbar using the Add button.  You can add <Separator>(s) for organization and printing is once again a mouse click away.

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