Customizing Your Quick Access Bar

You can customize your Quick Access Bar any way you want. Every role has a Quick Access Bar. Learner and management roles have different default icons and different icons to add and remove, but customizing the bar works the same.

To customize your Quick Access Bar, use the Toolbar Editor, which you access by clicking on the arrow to the right of the Quick Access Bar and selecting Customize Personal Toolbar:

The Toolbar Editor dialog then appears, which allows you to customize your Quick Access Bar:

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Items List - Displays the list of customizable item to appear in your Quick Access Bar. Certain items will not appear here, as they are a permanent part of the Quick Access Bar and cannot be removed.

Edit Buttons:

Add/Remove - Opens the Select Toolbar Items dialog, which allows you to select or deselect items to show in your Quick Access Bar.

New - Creates a custom item that leads to a file path or URL.

New Divider - Inserts a divider (a vertical line) that helps categorizing and organizing your items.

Delete - Deletes the selected item from your Quick Access Bar.

Up/Down Arrow - Changes the order of your items in the Quick Access Bar.

Name - Allows you to enter a custom name for the selected item.

Display Selection - Indicates how your items will appear in the Quick Access Bar: Text Only, Icon Only or Text and Icon Only.

To Add or Remove items to your Quick Access Bar:

  1. Click on the arrow to the right of the Quick Access Bar.
  2. Select Customize Personal Toolbar from the menu. The Toolbar Editor dialog appears.
  3. Click Add/Remove. The Select Toolbar Items dialog appears. The list of items you see represent the tabs and the functions that are in your Ribbon.
  4. Click the + symbols to reveal the options available to add to your Quick Access Bar.
  5. Click the checkboxes of the functions you'd like to add or uncheck the boxes of the functions you'd like to remove.
  6. Click OK to close this dialog.
  7. (optional) Click on the item names in the left box and then click on the up or down arrows to change the order of the items in which they appear in the Quick Access Bar.
  8. (Optional) Click on an item name in the item list and type a new name in the Name field.
  9. (Optional) Select each items in the list and choose whether they appear as Text Only, Icon Only, or Text and Icon.
  10. Click OK in the Toolbar Editor dialog.

To move the Quick Access Bar below or above the Ribbon:

  1. Click on the arrow to the right of the Quick Access Bar.
  2. Select Show Below the Ribbon to move the bar below the Ribbon; select Show Above the Ribbon to move the bar above the Ribbon.

Additional Help:

About the Quick Access Bar