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Add a Quick Access toolbar to Libreoffice

Microsoft Office has a Quick Access toolbar that lets you add your most commonly used tools to the top-left corner of the window’s title bar. To customise this, click the small down arrow to the right of the default Quick Access buttons.

Libreoffice doesn’t have this feature, but you can create something similar. First, open Writer or Calc, then open the Tools menu and select ‘Customise…’. When the Customise window opens, select the Toolbars tab, click the cog icon (next to the Target box), then ‘Add…’. Give your toolbar a name (such as Quickaccess), then select Libreoffice Writer or Calc – this means your toolbar will appear in all your documents, not just the one you currently have open.

Click OK, then use the Search box to find the commands you want to add to your toolbar. When you find one, select it in the box on the left, then click the right-pointing arrow. Repeat this to add as many commands as you like. To remove a command from your toolbar, select it in the box on the right, then click the left-pointing arrow.

If you add many commands, it’s worth dividing them into sections. To add a section divider, select the command that you want the divider to appear immediately after, then click Insert, followed by Insert Separator (see screenshot). You can then move the divider by clicking and dragging it. To delete a divider, rightclick it, then select Remove.