Customizing Toolbars

Apache OpenOffice 4.1 Impress Guide

Chapter 11: Setting Up and Customizing Impress

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    • Creating a New Toolbar
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    • Choosing Icons for Toolbar Commands
  • Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts
    • Saving Changes to a File
    • Loading a Saved Keyboard Configuration
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Customizing Toolbars

You can customize toolbars in several ways, including choosing which icons are visible and locking the position of a docked toolbar, as described in Chapter 1 (Introducing OpenOffice) of the Getting Started guide. This section describes how to create new toolbars and add other icons, that is, commands, to the list of those available on a toolbar.

To get to the toolbar customization dialog (Figure 221), do any of the following:

• On the toolbar, click the arrow at the end of the toolbar and choose Customize Toolbar.
• Choose View → Toolbars → Customize from the menu bar.
• Choose Tools → Customize → Toolbars tab from the menu bar.

Figure 221. The Toolbars tab of the Customize window

To customize toolbars:

1. In the Save In drop-down list, choose whether to save this changed toolbar for Impress or for a selected document.
2. In the OpenOffice Impress Toolbars section, select the toolbar that you want to customize from the Toolbar drop-down list.
3. Click the Toolbar button on the right to display a drop-down list of choices.
4. To display or hide commands, select or deselect the check boxes in the Toolbar Content – Commands section.
5. To change the hierarchical position of commands on a toolbar, select a command and then click the up arrow to move the command higher in the list, or the down arrow to move the command to a lower spot in the hierarchy. Both arrows are to the right of the lists.
6. You can create a new toolbar by clicking on the New button, or customize existing toolbars by clicking on the Toolbar or Modify buttons, and add commands to a toolbar by clicking on the Add button. These actions are described below.
7. When finished customizing toolbars, click  OK  to save your changes.