{"id":8920,"date":"2018-07-04T19:40:47","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T17:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/?p=8920"},"modified":"2024-04-16T22:24:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T20:24:14","slug":"how-to-add-a-macro-to-the-quick-access-toolbar-ribbon-in-excel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/blog\/how-to-add-a-macro-to-the-quick-access-toolbar-ribbon-in-excel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Add a Macro to the Quick Access Toolbar Ribbon in Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You have been following our <strong><a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/blog\/101-excel-macros-examples\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Macro\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Macro<\/a><\/strong> tutorials and are becoming an expert in no time!<\/p>\n<p>What if there&#8217;s a macro that you&#8217;re using all of the time, day in, day out? We can <strong>add a macro to the <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/blog\/how-to-delete-rows-in-excel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quick Access Toolbar Ribbon in<\/a> Excel for easy access!<\/p>\n<p>Make sure your Excel ribbon has the <strong>Developer Tab<\/strong> enabled following\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/blog\/how-to-create-your-first-macro-button-in-excel-beginners-tutorial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this tutorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I explain how you can do this below, so download the file below which has our sample macro inside the Excel Workbook.<\/p>\n<p>The sample macro (<em><strong>Macro2<\/strong><\/em>) will set your selected text to <strong>yellow, bold and italic<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"after-post-box\">\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_6gyo50O-Ow?rel=0 \" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/MyExcelOnlinecomtutorials?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignmiddle wp-image-111468 size-full\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1.yt_.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"line-two\"><a class=\"IRPP_minimalist icon-download button small\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Add-a-Macro-to-the-Toolbar-in-Excel.xlsm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-leadbox=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Add-a-Macro-to-the-Toolbar-in-Excel.xlsm\" data-leadbox-id=\"147284833f72a2:12f08263ab46dc\"><span class=\"ctaText px-3 text-capitalize\">Download excel workbook<i class=\"fa fa-download\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"postTitle px-3\">How-to-Add-a-Macro-to-the-Toolbar-in-Excel.xlsm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Add-a-Macro-to-the-Toolbar-in-Excel-01.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"How to Add a Macro to the Quick Access Toolbar Ribbon in Excel\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8923\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Add-a-Macro-to-the-Toolbar-in-Excel-01.jpg\" alt=\"How to Add a Macro to the Quick Access Toolbar Ribbon in Excel\" width=\"514\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Add-a-Macro-to-the-Toolbar-in-Excel-01.jpg 514w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Add-a-Macro-to-the-Toolbar-in-Excel-01-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>STEP 1:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Right click on the top Ribbon and select\u00a0<strong>Customize Quick Access Toolbar<\/strong><em><strong>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Add-a-Macro-to-the-Toolbar-in-Excel-02.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"How to Add a Macro to the Quick Access Toolbar Ribbon in Excel\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8924 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Add-a-Macro-to-the-Toolbar-in-Excel-02.jpg\" alt=\"How to Add a Macro to the Quick Access Toolbar Ribbon in Excel\" width=\"674\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Add-a-Macro-to-the-Toolbar-in-Excel-02.jpg 674w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Add-a-Macro-to-the-Toolbar-in-Excel-02-300x81.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>STEP 2:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0On\u00a0<strong>Choose commands from<\/strong>, select <b><a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/blog\/101-excel-macros-examples\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Macros\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Macros<\/a> <\/b>from the\u00a0drop down.<\/p>\n<p>Select\u00a0<strong>Macro2\u00a0<\/strong>and click\u00a0<strong>Add &gt;&gt;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Add-a-Macro-to-the-Toolbar-in-Excel-03.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"How to Add a Macro to the Quick Access Toolbar Ribbon in Excel\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8925\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Add-a-Macro-to-the-Toolbar-in-Excel-03.jpg\" alt=\"How to Add a Macro to the Quick Access Toolbar Ribbon in Excel\" width=\"826\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Add-a-Macro-to-the-Toolbar-in-Excel-03.jpg 826w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Add-a-Macro-to-the-Toolbar-in-Excel-03-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Add-a-Macro-to-the-Toolbar-in-Excel-03-768x630.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 826px) 100vw, 826px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On the right side, make sure\u00a0<strong>Macro2\u00a0<\/strong>is selected and click on\u00a0<strong>Modify<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Select any Symbol that you like to represent this macro and click\u00a0<strong>OK.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Add-a-Macro-to-the-Toolbar-in-Excel-04.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"How to Add a Macro to the Quick Access Toolbar Ribbon in Excel\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8926\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Add-a-Macro-to-the-Toolbar-in-Excel-04.jpg\" alt=\"How to Add a Macro to the Quick Access Toolbar Ribbon in Excel\" width=\"826\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Add-a-Macro-to-the-Toolbar-in-Excel-04.jpg 826w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Add-a-Macro-to-the-Toolbar-in-Excel-04-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Add-a-Macro-to-the-Toolbar-in-Excel-04-768x630.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 826px) 100vw, 826px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Click\u00a0<strong>OK\u00a0<\/strong>to finish the setup.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Add-a-Macro-to-the-Toolbar-in-Excel-05.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"How to Add a Macro to the Quick Access Toolbar Ribbon in Excel\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8927\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Add-a-Macro-to-the-Toolbar-in-Excel-05.jpg\" alt=\"How to Add a Macro to the Quick Access Toolbar Ribbon in Excel\" width=\"826\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Add-a-Macro-to-the-Toolbar-in-Excel-05.jpg 826w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Add-a-Macro-to-the-Toolbar-in-Excel-05-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Add-a-Macro-to-the-Toolbar-in-Excel-05-768x630.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 826px) 100vw, 826px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>STEP 3:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Now let us try out the macro in action!<\/p>\n<p>Select a range of cells, and try out your new <strong>Quick Access Toolbar button!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Add-a-Macro-to-the-Toolbar-in-Excel-06.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"How to Add a Macro to the Quick Access Toolbar Ribbon in Excel\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8928\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Add-a-Macro-to-the-Toolbar-in-Excel-06.jpg\" alt=\"How to Add a Macro to the Quick Access Toolbar Ribbon in Excel\" width=\"235\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Add-a-Macro-to-the-Toolbar-in-Excel-06.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Add-a-Macro-to-the-Toolbar-in-Excel-06-122x300.jpg 122w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That was easy! Now you can access your macro with just one click!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Add-a-Macro-to-the-Toolbar-in-Excel-07.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"How to Add a Macro to the Quick Access Toolbar Ribbon in Excel\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8929\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/How-to-Add-a-Macro-to-the-Toolbar-in-Excel-07.jpg\" alt=\"How to Add a Macro to the Quick Access Toolbar Ribbon in Excel\" width=\"172\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>How to Add a Macro to the Quick Access Toolbar Ribbon in Excel<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/100-66.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/101-Macros-Book.png\" alt=\"101 Macros Book\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/101-Macros-Book.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/101-Macros-Book-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/101-Macros-Book-1024x536.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/101-Macros-Book-768x402.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have been following our Macro tutorials and are becoming an expert in no time! What if there&#8217;s a macro that you&#8217;re using all of the time, day in, day out? We can add a macro to the Quick Access Toolbar Ribbon in Excel for easy access! Make sure your Excel ribbon has the Developer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cos_headline_score":0,"cos_seo_score":0,"cos_headline_text":"How to Add a Macro to the Quick Access Toolbar Ribbon in Excel","cos_headline_has_been_analyzed":false,"cos_last_analyzed_headline":[],"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[56,648],"tags":[371,181],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}