Alt Text Quick Button

Posted on Tuesday, April 1st, 2014

To enable the Alternative Text Quick button, navigate to the fly-out menu (known as the Quick Access Toolbar) at the top of the ribbon and choose “More Commands”.

Screenshot of the Microsoft Word Quick Access Toolbar.

Select “Customize” on the left (Word 2010 users will see “Quick Access Toolbar”). Use the drop-down menu, “Choose commands from” and select “Commands Not in the Ribbon”.

Screenshot of the customize menu in Microsoft Word 2010.Select “Alt Text” and the “Add” button to add the option to your Quick Access Toolbar.

Screenshot of the "Add Alt Text" button in Microsoft Word 2010. You will now have easy access to alternative text for images, charts and graphs from the Quick Access Toolbar.

Screenshot of the Alt Text button on the Quick Access Toolbar in Microsoft Word 2010.

Highlight the image, chart or graph and click the alternative text button that you just set up in the Quick Access Toolbar. Select the “Alt Text” tab and insert an alternative text description. Word 2010 users will type the description in the “Description” box.

Screenshot of the Alt Text Description box in Microsoft Word 2010.

 

 


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