{"id":1554,"date":"2016-06-23T10:56:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T17:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itgroove.net\/oh365eh\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2023-02-24T20:34:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T20:34:39","slug":"turn-tools-bar-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/oh365eh\/2016\/06\/23\/turn-tools-bar-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Turn on the Tools Bar in Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I first starting using Microsoft Edge &#8220;full time&#8221; two weeks ago, I was surprised to not see a few familiar buttons that I use every day in Internet Explorer, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Home button<em> &#8211; answered <a href=\"https:\/\/itgroove.net\/oh365eh\/2016\/06\/23\/turn-home-button-edge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>Favourites bar\u00a0<em> &#8211; answered <a href=\"https:\/\/itgroove.net\/oh365eh\/2016\/06\/23\/turn-favourites-bar-edge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>Tools bar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Curiosity and a desire to not revert back to my old ways of using Internet Explorer prompted this small Microsoft Edge blog series of my discoveries with working with Microsoft Edge. While on a mission to track down the button to turn on the Tools bar in Edge (as right clicking on the top heading area like you do in Internet Explorer does nothing in Edge), I discovered the following:<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">You cannot turn on the Tools bar in Microsoft Edge<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Super huge kudos to <a href=\"http:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/profile\/0935d862-6551-4573-b2ef-13a4b80b0690#user-profile-tab-profile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lynnette Jordan<\/a> who took the time to phone with Microsoft Help Desk and post answers in the Microsoft Community forum. Here&#8217;s a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/forum\/apps_windows_10-msedge\/microsoft-edge-how-to-setup-toolbars\/41613693-f906-46b1-af49-12cd2eefb6fa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the &#8220;microsoft edge how to setup toolbars&#8221; thread<\/a>. Here&#8217;s the key message: <em>&#8220;I have been informed by them that Toolbar is not a part of the Platform for Edge.\u00a0 It is not offered in the Edge browser.&#8221; &#8211; Lynnette Jordan<\/em><\/p>\n<div><strong>In summary: if you want to use the Tools bar, you&#8217;ll have to go back to using Microsoft Internet Explorer&#8230; <\/strong>at least for now, maybe forever. Time will tell!<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Here is how to turn on the Toolbar\u00a0in Microsoft Internet Explorer:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Right click in the top menu area to turn on the Command bar, which\u00a0gives you a Tools button.<\/li>\n<li>Click on the Tools button to see the\u00a0menu.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Step 1:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itgroove.net\/oh365eh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/06\/Microsoft-Internet-Explorer-Toolbar-01.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1564\" src=\"https:\/\/itgroove.net\/oh365eh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/06\/Microsoft-Internet-Explorer-Toolbar-01.png\" alt=\"Microsoft-Internet-Explorer-Toolbar-01\" width=\"340\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/oh365eh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/06\/Microsoft-Internet-Explorer-Toolbar-01.png 340w, https:\/\/regroove.ca\/oh365eh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/06\/Microsoft-Internet-Explorer-Toolbar-01-300x293.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itgroove.net\/oh365eh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/06\/Microsoft-Internet-Explorer-Toolbar-02.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1565\" src=\"https:\/\/itgroove.net\/oh365eh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/06\/Microsoft-Internet-Explorer-Toolbar-02.png\" alt=\"Microsoft-Internet-Explorer-Toolbar-02\" width=\"406\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/oh365eh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/06\/Microsoft-Internet-Explorer-Toolbar-02.png 406w, https:\/\/regroove.ca\/oh365eh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/06\/Microsoft-Internet-Explorer-Toolbar-02-245x300.png 245w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Hope that helps!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first starting using Microsoft Edge &#8220;full time&#8221; two weeks ago, I was surprised to not see a few familiar buttons that I use every day in Internet Explorer, including: Home button &#8211; answered here Favourites bar\u00a0 &#8211; answered here Tools bar Curiosity and a desire to not revert back to my old ways &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/oh365eh\/2016\/06\/23\/turn-tools-bar-edge\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[24,39,74,101,118,137,139,227,265],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - 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