Operation Manual

Sub-menus and tool palettes
Toolbar icons with a small triangle to the right will display sub-menus, tool palettes, and other ways
of selecting things, depending on the icon.
Tool palettes can be made into a floating toolbar and Figure 4 shows an example of a tool palette
from the Drawing toolbar made into a floating toolbar. See “Moving toolbars” and “Floating
toolbars” below for more information on moving and floating these toolbars created from tool
palettes.
Moving toolbars
Docked toolbars can be undocked and moved to a new docked position or left as a floating toolbar.
1) Move the mouse cursor over the toolbar handle, which is the small vertical bar to the left of
a docked toolbar and highlighted in Figure 5.
2) Hold down the left mouse button and drag the toolbar to the new location. The toolbar can
be docked in a new position at the top, sides or bottom of the main window, or left as a
floating toolbar.
3) Release the mouse button.
4) To move a floating toolbar, click on its title bar and drag it to a new floating location or dock
the toolbar at the top or bottom of the main window.
Figure 5: Toolbar handles
Note
You can also dock a floating toolbar by holding down the Ctrl key and clicking in the
title bar of the toolbar.
Floating toolbars
LibreOffice includes several additional toolbars, whose default setting appear as floating toolbars in
response to the current position of the cursor or selection. You can dock these toolbars to the top
or bottom of the main window, or reposition them on your computer display (see “Moving toolbars”
above).
Some of these additional toolbars are context sensitive and will automatically appear depending on
the position of the cursor. For example, when the cursor is in a table, a Table toolbar appears, and
when the cursor is in a numbered or bullet list, the Bullets and Numbering toolbar appears.
Customizing toolbars
You can customize toolbars in several ways, including choosing which icons are visible and locking
the position of a docked toolbar. You can also add icons and create new toolbars, as described in
Chapter 14 Customizing LibreOffice. To access the customization options for a toolbar, right-click
between the icons on a toolbar. A context menu opens.
• To show or hide icons defined for the selected toolbar, click Visible Buttons. Visible icons
on a toolbar are indicated by an outline around the icon (Figure 6) or by a check mark
beside the icon, depending on your operating system. Select or deselect icons to hide or
show them on the toolbar.
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