found in the “All Commands” list of the “Customize Toolbars and Menus” dialog box. My collection of Macros, with icons copied from other Word Commands.īecause Macros all have the same generic “macro” icon, making them difficult to tell apart, I gave them different icons I copied from other Microsoft Word Commands-in this case, from the Commands “Show Heading1,” “Show Heading2,” etc. For more than a decade the “Save” icon has been the floppy disk (even though floppy disks haven’t been used in all that time!) The appearance of Commands added to Toolbars can be changed by right-clicking (or Control + Clicking for single-button mouse users) on the name of the Command and selecting “Properties,” bringing up the Command Properties dialog box. Normally, however, commands are signified by their icon, such as the “Save” Command found in the Standard Toolbar. This makes perfect sense for Styles and Macros-their name is their description. However, you’ll notice if your Toolbar contains Styles or Macros, their appearance is only text. When you create new Toolbars and add Commands, the default appearance of those commands is an icon. Luckily, there’s a way to customize the appearance of Toolbar Commands. Fortunately, the appearance of Toolbar Commands can be customized. When creating a Macro Toolbar, the whole name as presented in the dialog box is used.
