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Introducing the AutoCAD Application Window 13
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Sometimes the status bar icons can be a little cryptic. If you prefer, AutoCAD
can display those buttons as text instead of icons.
Just right-click on any of the icons and deselect Use Icons.
At the right side of the status bar are tools for navigating in the drawing area
and controlling the display, tools for controlling the appearance of annotation
objects in AutoCAD, and tools for controlling access to other drawings or features
within the current drawing. The padlock icon controls which types of toolbars
and windows are locked in their current positions on the screen. Leave it in the
unlocked mode for now.
To conclude this quick introduction to the various parts of the Application
window, you need to understand a couple of items that might be visible on your
screen. You might have scroll bars below and to the right of the drawing area;
although they can be useful, they can also take up precious space in the draw-
ing area. They won’t be of any use while working your way through this book, so
you can remove them for now.
These features can be removed temporarily via the
OPTIONS command. The
following steps show you how:
1. To access the OPTIONS command graphically, click the Application
Menu button in the upper-left corner of the AutoCAD window, and then
click the Options button at the bottom of the menu (see Figure1.14).
The OPTIONS command is also accessible from the command line by
typing
OPTIONS ↵.
The Options dialog box (shown in Figure1.15) opens. It has ten tabs
(LT has only eight) across the top that act like tabs on file folders.
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