There are three toolbars that come preset with Outlook: Standard, Web and Advanced. (Remember that you may have different ones if there are applications installed on your computer that interact with Outlook.) We’re going to discuss these toolbars in depth later on, but for now just keep in mind that there are those three.

 

There are three ways to control which toolbars are shown.

 

- Right-click on a blank spot beside the toolbars

- Click on the Tools menu, click Customize, and click on the Toolbars tab

- Click on the View menu and click Toolbars

 

To see a toolbar, just make sure it’s checked in any one of these spots. If you check the Advanced toolbar under the view menu, it will also appear checked in the other two spots. The same goes for hiding a toolbar; uncheck it in one of the ways listed above.

 

You can also move toolbars around. If you put your cursor over the small dotted line to the far left of any toolbar (it’s circled in red in the picture to the right) your cursor will change to a crosshair with arrows on all four sides. You can now drag and drop the toolbar where ever you want!

 

There’s also an option in the Tools menu (click Customize and click on the Toolbars tab) to reset a specific toolbar to its default settings if you don’t like the changes you’ve made.

 

Now that we’ve got the basics of showing, hiding, and moving toolbars, let’s take a look at the Standard Toolbar, the one you’ll use most.