Floating and Moving Toolbars

Apache OpenOffice 4.1 Draw Guide

Chapter 1: Introducing Draw

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• Introduction
• The Draw Workplace
• Rulers
• Status Bar
• Toolbars and the Sidebar
  • Standard Toolbar
  • Drawing Tools
  • Line and Filling Tools
  • Text Formatting Toolbar
  • Color Bar
    • Choosing a color palette
  • Options Toolbar
• Drawing Grid and Guides
• Floating and Moving Toolbars
  • Customizing Toolbars
• Quick Printing
• Controlling Printing
  • Selecting General Printing Options
  • Printing Multiple Pages on a Single Sheet of Paper
  • Selecting Pages to Print
  • Printing a Brochure
  • Printing in Black and White (on a Color Printer)
• Exporting to PDF
  • Quick Export to PDF
  • Controlling PDF Content and Quality
• Exporting to Other Formats
• Exporting Draw Documents as Web Pages
• E-mailing Documents

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Floating and Moving Toolbars

Many toolbar icons are marked with a small arrow. The arrow indicates that this icon has additional tools. Click the arrow to display the full set of tools (see Figure 17). You can “tear off” this tool set, making it a floating toolbar. Click the area at the bottom of the toolset, drag it across the screen to a location you want, and then release the mouse button. The icons in the Insert Shapes pane of the Sidebar have the same toolsets, and they can also be torn off

To dock a floating toolbar to the top or side of the Draw workspace,  Ctrl  +  click  on the title of the toolbar. To float a docked toolbar, click its handle and drag it off the side of the workspace (see Figure 18). The floating-toolbar capability is common to all components of OpenOffice.

Figure 17: An arrow next to an icon indicates additional functions

When a toolset is made into a floating toolbar, the icon on the existing toolbar remains in the toolbar, and always shows the last command you used. This means that the icon you see on your screen may differ from the icon shown in this Guide.

Figure 18: Two toolbars with highlighted handles

When you double-click on an icon on a floating toolbar, the command corresponding to that icon will run. You can then repeat this action as often as you like. To exit this mode, press the  Esc  key or click on another icon (for example, ). This may not work for every icon on every toolbar.