Chapter 17. Customizing and Expanding Office

What You’ll Do

Customize Toolbars

Change Menus

Change Shortcut Keys

Work with Macros

Open a Document with Macros

Save a Document with Macros

Install and Run Office Scripts

Work with an Automator Workflow

Use Ready-Made AppleScripts

Write and Record AppleScripts

Remove Office

Introduction

Once you’ve become familiar with Microsoft Office 2008 and all the features it contains, you might want to customize the way you work. You can change the configuration of the menus and toolbars that you use. You can also create your own toolbar for just the commands that you use when creating your Office documents. Macros can simplify common repetitive tasks that you use regularly in Office. Macros can reside ...

Get Office 2008 for the Mac on Demand now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.