Using the Button Bar

The Button Bar contains buttons that provide quicker alternative access to many commands and features. It appears at the top of your screen by default. The buttons that appear depend on the type of document that is currently active. (When no documents are open, the Button Bar shows buttons to create documents of each type.)

To display the Button Bar:

•	Choose Show Button Bar from the Window menu.

To hide the Button Bar:

•	Choose Hide Button Bar from the Window menu.

You can customize the Button Bar (for example, by adding and deleting buttons, or including pop-up menus that let you change the look of selected text and graphics).

Using contextual menus

You can quickly access many commands by holding down the Control key while clicking in a window.

For example:

•	Control-click in a word-processing document to access a menu that includes font, size, style, text color, and more.
•	Control-click in the Button Bar to choose Remove Button or Customize Button Bar.

Using keyboard shortcuts

Many menu commands have keyboard equivalents, which are displayed to the right of the command name in the menu. The following symbols are used:

	Symbol in menu		Key it represents
			Command
			Shift
			Option
			Enter

You can also perform many actions quickly by combining keystrokes and mouse clicks, or double-clicking.

Many dialog boxes also have keyboard equivalents. To see the keyboard shortcuts for a dialog box, hold down the Command key while viewing the dialog box.

See the following topics for information on specific shortcuts:

	General keyboard shortcuts
	Word-processing keyboard shortcuts
	Spreadsheet keyboard shortcuts
	Database keyboard shortcuts
	Drawing keyboard shortcuts
	Painting keyboard shortcuts
	Presentation keyboard shortcuts
	Frame keyboard shortcuts
	Table keyboard shortcuts
	Outline keyboard shortcuts