

This video tutorial shows how to remove any custom toolbars from the Ribbon, by using a mouse shortcut. Adding Commands to the Toolbar in Excel To get more tools, you have the option to customize the Quick Access Toolbar simply by adding the commands. Click on Tools in the program menu at the top of the window and select Customize from the drop. It will turn up again, whether you want it or not, the next time you open that workbook. Launch the Microsoft Excel program on your computer. When the warning message appears, click Yes, to confirm that you want to delete the custom toolbar.Īnd don’t worry - you’re not deleting the toolbar from the workbook.Right-click on one of the custom toolbar’s commands.To delete a custom toolbar from the Ribbon: The good news is that you can delete the custom toolbars from the Ribbon, with an easy mouse shortcut. Nope, they hang around, uninvited, cluttering up the place. Unfortunately, those custom toolbars don’t automatically disappear when you close the workbook to which they’re attached. Here’s just a small section of my Add-Ins tab, after opening a client’s workbook. Things can get pretty messy, especially if those custom toolbars had more than a few buttons. If you open an Excel 2003 workbook that has an attached custom toolbar, that custom toolbar’s tools will appear on the Add-Ins tab in the Ribbon. It has an Add-Ins tab, where custom toolbars and menu commands will appear. The Ribbon was introduced in Excel 2007, to replace the Excel toolbars.

This is the Customize dialog box in Excel 2003, where you could attach a toolbar. Here’s how you can delete custom toolbar from Excel Ribbon, if you don’t want to see it. I didn’t use that feature, but occasionally I receive a workbook where someone has attached a toolbar. In Excel 2003, you could create a custom toolbar, and attach it to a specific workbook.
