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2. Click each of the tabs at the top of this dialog box to become familiar with all the ways
you can customize your user interface (changes can be made to the keyboard, toolbars,
quad menus, pull-down menus, and colors). If you do decide to make any changes, sim-
ply click the Save button on the tab in this dialog box to record your specific changes to
disk, as shown in Figure 1.73. Each tab saves as a different file type that controls different
aspects of the user interface.
3. Choose Customize  Save Custom UI Scheme. Open the Save as Type drop-down list,
as shown in Figure 1.74. You will notice five different file formats that can be saved (and
loaded) through Save (and Load) Custom UI Scheme from the Customize menu. Each
one of the lower four formats—UI File (*.c u i), Menu File (*.m n u ), Color File (*.clr), and
Shortcut File (*.k b d )—corresponds to each of the tabs in the Customize User Interface
dialog box—Toolbars and Quads, Menus, Colors, and Keyboard, respectively.
When you choose to save the first format in the Save Custom UI Scheme dialog box (Interface
Scheme format), you are saving a composite file that contains all the customization present
in all the other formats combined. It is this Interface Scheme format (*.u i) that is displayed in
the UI Schemes portion of the new Custom UI and Defaults Switcher.
Figure 1.73
Saving the
customization
Figure 1.74
The Save Custom UI
Scheme dialog box
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