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Customize Toolbar

There are over 250 tools available for the user configurable toolbar. The customize toolbar panel is provided to select and arrange which of these are included on the drawing toolbar.

The toolbar is designed to be customized by even the most novice of users. There are over 250 tools to choose from. The order and whether or not to include a tool is determined dragging a tool from the customization panel to the toolbar.

The Toolbar is customized by dragging selections from the Toolbar palette and placing them on the Toolbar at the desired location. To remove an item click and drag it off the document Toolbar, it will go away. To move an item just click and drag to the desired location.

You may return to a default Toolbar by dragging the sample Toolbar from the customize Toolbar palette to the document window's Toolbar.

The popup menu near the bottom of the Toolbar palette allows the selection of the display format of the Toolbar. The selections possible are icons, names or icons and names.

There are icons for Separator, Space, and Flexible Space which may be used to format the layout of the Toolbar. They can help make the Toolbar visually appealing and more functional by grouping buttons according to use.

With version 10.4, Tiger, of OS X, it is possible to have duplicates of tools on the toolbar. This is not meaningful for all tools, but for several tools such the color picker this is possible. But only for version 10.4 or newer.

The use of duplicate tools introduces a dynamic aspect to your toolbar. Use different instances for different individual shape selections and the toolbar will evolve with the work flow, presenting your most frequent actions for single click access.

As you become more familiar with EazyDraw, a custom toolbar can reduce the number of floating palettes on the screen workspace. The use of small icons, without tool names, will provide room for 20 - 40 tools on the toolbar, depending on screen size.