Help With a Toolbar Button

[JD]

The Read button is the only one that appears with a text label beside it.
With toolbar space at a premium, I'd like to make it just a plain button,
but can't figure out how to "customize" it. Is there a way to do this?

 

[DDM]

JD, here's one way: Right-click any toolbar button and select Customize.
With the Customize dialog box open, right-click the Read button and replace
"&Read" in the Name field with a single space (Word won't let you leave the
field blank), then press Enter. Close the Customize dialog box.

If you ever want to set it back the way it was, right-click any toolbar
button and select Customize. With the Customize dialog box open, right-click
the Read button and select Reset. Close the Customize dialog box.

DDM
"DDM's Microsoft Office Tips and Tricks"
www.ddmcomputing.com

 

[JD]

Thanks. I'll try your suggestion. I recall having a similar problem with the
Find button in Word 2002 and stumbling on a fix by accident. It had to to
with choosing "default" at some point, but I can't remember how I did it.

 

[JD]

Well, that might have worked for you, but I get no response to right clicks
from the Customize window.
I can only choose to drag the button and drop it onto a toolbar. But it
still has the word "Read" on the button. Likewise with "Full Screen."
There must be a way to get the button without the word.

 

[DDM]

JD, dumb question of the hour: You are right-clicking the button on the
toolbar, not the one in the customize dialog box? And getting no response?
OK. Try this, then:

Bring up the Customize dialog box. Select the Commands tab. LEFT-click the
Read button (on the toolbar), then click the Modify Selection button at the
bottom of the Customize dialog box. That brings up the same menu that
right-clicking the toolbar button does. Take it from there.

DDM
"DDM's Microsoft Office Tips and Tricks"
www.ddmcomputing.com

 

[Graham Mayor]

Tools > customize.
Right click the toolbar button.
Change the setting from Image & text to Default style (near the bottom of
the dialog box)
Close the customize window.
If you click the tiny arrow at the right hand end of the toolbar, you can
uncheck tools that you never use - like the read tool - and give yourself
more space.
I take it you have the toolbars displayed on more than one line? Tools >
customize > options > show standard and formatting toolbars on two rows?

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[JD]

OK. I think I've got it now. Thanks for your patience.

 

[JD]

Thank you, Graham.
BTW, I have also decided to go ahead and display the toolbars on two lines.