Creating your own toolbars of instruments

You can create your own toolbars that contain the commands that you need. You can make custom toolbars floating or tabbed.

To create a custom toolbar

  1. On the Tools menu, click Preferences, and then click Customize Toolbar.

The Toolbars section opens, displaying all the toolbars as are available in your installation, as well as the commands on each toolbar.

  1. Click New to start designing your new toolbar.
  2. In Caption, type a name for your new toolbar. In Toolbar type, click an option to make the new toolbar tabbed or floating.
  3. Select the Visible check box to make the toolbox visible.
  4. Under Available Commands, click the plus symbol next to a menu node to expand it and see its commands.
  5. Select command that you want to put onto the new toolbar, and then click Add.
  6. Repeat Step 5 for each command that you want to have on the new toolbar.

The set of commands for the new toolbar appear under Toolbox Commands.

  1. (Optional) Use the Separator, Move Up and Move Down buttons to arrange the commands in groups within the new toolbar.
  2. (Optional) Use the Move Left and Move Right buttons to position the new toolbar in relation to the rest of the toolbars.
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To edit a custom toolbar

NOTE: You can edit only custom toolbars as well as make them floating or tabbed — the default toolbars are always tabbed and can be only moved to a different position.

  1. On the Tools menu, click Preferences, and then click Customize Toolbar.
  2. In the section, make the changes you need. (For details, see the previous procedure.)
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To delete a custom toolbar

NOTE: You cannot delete any of the default toolbars.

  1. On the Tools menu, click Preferences, and then click Customize Toolbar.
  2. Open the custom toolbar that you want to delete.
  3. Click Delete.
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