User guide

Quantity One User Guide

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Below the menu bar is the main toolbar, containing some of the most

commonly used commands. Next to the main toolbar are the status boxes,

which provide information about cursor selection and toolbar buttons.

2.1.b Main Toolbar

The main toolbar appears below the menu. It includes buttons for the main

ﬁle commands (Open, Save, Print) and essential viewing tools (Zoom Box,

Grab, etc.), as well as buttons that open the secondary toolbars and the most

useful Quick Guides (Printing, Volumes, Molecular Weight, and Colony

Counting).

Fig. 2-2. Main toolbar.

Tool Help

If you hold the cursor over a toolbar icon, the name of the command will pop

up below the icon. This utility is called Tool Help. Tool Help appears on a

time delay basis that can be speciﬁed in the Preferences dialog box under Edit

> Preferences. You can also specify how long the Tool Help will remain

displayed.

2.1.c Status Boxes

There are two status boxes, which appear to the right of the main toolbar.

Fig. 2-3. Status boxes.

File commands Viewing commands Toolbars Quick Guides