User Guide

FreeHand Basics 25
To remove a tool from the Tools panel, do one of the following:
• Select Window > Toolbars > Customize, and drag the desired button from the Tools panel.
• Alt-drag (Windows) or Command-drag (Macintosh) a tool from the Tools panel.
Once you remove a tool from the Tools panel, you cannot move the tool back onto the panel
without using the Customize dialog box. For more information on customizing toolbars, see
“Customizing toolbars” on page 38.
The Status toolbar
The Status toolbar appears along the bottom of the Document window. It contains a page
addition button and page selector buttons as well as pop-up menus for magnification, page view,
drawing mode, and units of measure.
In Windows, the Status toolbar displays messages about the task in progress or the menu
command highlighted. To cancel an operation in progress in Windows, you can click the toolbar’s
Cancel button.
On the Macintosh, the Status toolbar is permanently docked to the Document window; you can’t
undock it or move it to another location.
Using preferences
FreeHand preferences let you customize your work environment. Settings stored in the
Preferences file include the following:
• Number of undo operations
• Path-editing behavior, path fills, and path behavior
• Default line widths and graphic styles
• Text behavior
• Document views and window location
• Active page settings
• Settings for reviewing documents when closing them
• Attributes of imported and exported files
• Settings for embedding graphics in Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) and other Clipboard
formats
• Spelling preferences
• Guide and grid colors and color management options
• Panel display options
• Text effects, small text size (“greeked” type), image screen resolution, and objects set to
overprint
• Snap sounds (Macintosh only)