In Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, the mini toolbar is a smaller version of the full toolbar found near the top of the application window. The mini toolbar appears when you highlight text and either move your mouse cursor over the highlighted text or right-click the highlighted text.
Mini toolbar features
The mini toolbar features commonly used text editing functions, which include:
- Font type
- Font size
- Increase font size
- Decrease font size
- Increase indent of text
- Decrease indent of text
- Bold
- Italics
- Underline
- Center text (alignment)
- Highlight text
- Font Color
- Format Painter
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Only the 2007 and 2010 version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook include the mini toolbar feature. It can be turned off, if desired, but it cannot be modified to include different functions.
