Toolbar Removal From Word Processing Programs

Toolbars in your word processing program can help you perform different functions. Toolbars are commonly found under the main menu bar of the program. There can be multiple toolbars in your program. More number of toolbars means that your program will have increased functions on its window. However, as the number of toolbars in your program goes up, your program could become slower and may hang occasionally. You can activate or deactivate these toolbars, as you wish, and make your program more stable. In this post, we will find out how to remove toolbars from your word processing program.

Steps Involved

• Go to the Help menu corresponding to the toolbar. It is also important to find out the list of items in the menu associated with the toolbar.
• The View option in the menu bar will give you the list of toolbars in the program.
• From the list, find out the toolbars, which you frequently use, while running the program. The Standard and Formatting toolbars are essential or frequently used ones. Therefore, you may not turn off these toolbars.
• You may find other toolbars in the list like the Formatting and Standard toolbars. These toolbars may not be of any use to you unless and until you are working with pictures or graphics in the program. Therefore, you may deactivate these toolbars.
• You may also choose to resize the toolbar. For this, press and hold the left mouse button and then drag the toolbar.
• Another method to deactivate a toolbar is to right click on it and choose the option Turn Off. Keep in mind that different programs will have different options to turn off the feature. Sometimes, it would be the Disable option in the toolbar.
• You may also navigate to the Help menu of the toolbar and find out the steps to enable it again. 
• Most of the toolbars function with different shortcut keys. In order to find out these keys, go to the Help section in the toolbar menu.

We hope that the above given steps have helped you to find out how to remove toolbars from your word processing program. Keep in mind that we have only mentioned the steps to disable the toolbars and not remove them from your computer, so that you may activate them again. If you have any queries regarding this toolbar removal process, you may contact our technical support team for assistance.