Operation Manual

Displaying or hiding toolbars
To display or hide toolbars, go to View > Toolbars on the Menu bar, then click on the name of a
toolbar from the drop-down list. An active toolbar shows a check-mark beside its name. Toolbars
created from tool palettes are not listed in the View menu.
To close a toolbar go to View > Toolbars on the Menu bar and deselect the toolbar, or right-click in
an empty space between the icons on a toolbar and select Close toolbar from the context menu.
Sub-menus and tool palettes
Toolbar icons with a small triangle to the right will display sub-menus, tool palettes, and alternative
methods of selecting items, depending on the icon.
Tool palettes can be made into a floating toolbar. 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.
Figure 4: Example of tearing off a tool palette
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.
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
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