Soon after power users install a new application, they want to customize their menus and toolbars so that their most often used commands areaccessible with fewer clicks, or even custom keyboard shortcuts. And even if you are not a power user, you should explore a very useful option that weexplain in this tutorial, this will make your tasks easier, and quicker.

Full Quick Access Toolbar support for Office for Mac 2016 PC QAT is a boon and better than customizing PPT for Mac 11, now we have neither option. It would be great if the exported QAT files would work across MAC and PC but that is a minor issue compared to being able to create a QAT and move it under the ribbon like in the PC versions. If you wish to configure the Quick Access Toolbar, which is the one at the very top left-hand corner of the application, you need to select the Quick Access Toolbar option on the right of the toolbar selection bar. Then you can select from the commands list box on the left and add any commands that you use consistently.

Learn about the Quick Access Toolbar in PowerPoint 365 for Mac. Once you get used to the Quick Access Toolbar, you may no longer want to function without it. This is the print version of this page. The Standard toolbar in Office for Mac serves the same purpose as the Quick Access Toolbar in Office for Windows — it offers quick access to common tools. The Standard toolbar on the Mac is context sensitive. You can customize the Standard toolbar. To display the toolbar customization options, choose View→Customize Toolbar from the menu bar. On your Mac, click the Finder icon in the Dock to open a Finder window. Do any of the following: Hide or show the toolbar: Choose View Hide Toolbar, or View Show Toolbar. Hiding the toolbar also hides the sidebar, and moves the status bar from the bottom to the top of the window.

PowerPoint has no toolbars other than the Quick Access Toolbar. Almost everyone who uses this toolbar just calls it theQAT, and that's the name we will use for the rest of this tutorial. The QAT's raison d'être is customization, and accessing all yourfavorite commands in one place. It's important to note that the QAT does not add new commands, it just places your favorite commands in one place.

In PowerPoint 365 for Mac, by default, the QAT can be found right above theRibbon tabs, as shown highlighted in bluewithin Figure 1. Also, the default commands you can find within QAT are File, Save, Undo, andRepeat. Do note that you cannot choose to move the QAT to below the Ribbon, as you can do within Windows versions of PowerPoint.

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Figure 1: Quick Access Toolbar (or QAT)

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You can add more commands to your QAT through customization. The area where the QAT isplaced is not large enough to hold many commands. When you have plenty of commands added to the QAT, you'll have to click the double-arrowbutton that appears at the end of QAT (highlighted in green within Figure 2, below) to see them. This brings up adrop-down menu showing these extra commands, as shown highlighted in blue within Figure 2, below.

Figure 2: Plenty of commands on the QAT

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You can add and remove commands on the QAT. We explain more in ourCustomize Quick Access Toolbar in PowerPointtutorial.