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3. Place the arrow cursor on the button, and hold down the left mouse
button. A column of nine buttons opens vertically below the original
button (see Figure 1.18). The top button in the column is a duplicate
of the button you clicked. This column of buttons is called a toolbar
fly-out menu. In this example, you’re working with the Zoom toolbar
fly-out menu.
FIGURE 1.18: A toolbar fly-out menu
4. To dock a floating toolbar, click the grab bar and drag the toolbar to
either side of the drawing area or to just below the AutoCAD title bar
and release.
5. To detach a docked toolbar, click the grab bar and drag the toolbar
into the drawing area.
6. Close any open toolbars by undocking them then clicking the X in
the upper-right corner of each.
The toolbar fly-out menus are regular toolbars that have been attached to
another toolbar. AutoCAD has 38 toolbars in all, but only a few have fly-out
menus—the Zoom fly-out menu I just discussed and the Insert fly-out menu on
the Draw toolbar, for example.
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Grab bars are the two
lines at the left end of
a horizontal toolbar
or at the top of a ver-
tical one. They repre-
sent the one place to
grab a docked toolbar
to move it.You can
also change a docked
toolbar into a floating
toolbar by double-
clicking its grab bars.
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