Starting IBM Cognos Office
When you first open one of the supported Microsoft Office applications, an IBM® Cognos® Office toolbar appears. To view the commands and icons that you need to work in the IBM Cognos Office environment, you must make the IBM Cognos pane and the IBM Cognos Office toolbar available.
When the IBM Cognos Office toolbar is available, you can set your preferences , define the IBM Cognos Analytics gateway addresses of the data sources, and log on to an IBM Cognos Business Intelligence server.
After starting IBM Cognos Office, you may decide to resume work on non-IBM Cognos Office workbooks or documents, and want to show only the commands and buttons that you use. You can hide the IBM Cognos toolbar or the IBM Cognos action pane in your work area.