Customizing the Toolbar
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Important: the toolbar buttons may not display correctly if you have an old version of Windows 95. If this is the case on your system, you will have to install a newer version of the ComCtl32.DLL file. You can do this by downloading and installing the following update file from Microsoft's Web site (about 500 Kb):

http://msdn.microsoft.com/developer/downloads/files/40Comupd.exe


You can configure many aspects of the toolbar. There are over 90 commands you can display in it and you can reorder any button to suit your way of working. The toolbar properties are available through the Toolbar shortcut menu (right-click with your mouse on the toolbar) or by opening the Options dialog box and selecting the Toolbar tab.

Show in Toolbar: This list shows all the available toolbar buttons. By clicking in the check box in front of each button description, you can make it visible or remove it from the toolbar. Use the Separator items to group related buttons. You can easily reorder buttons and separators by clicking on their caption and dragging them to a new position. Alternatively, you can select a button item and use the Move Up and Move Down buttons to change its position. The list's shortcut menu offers commands to move all selected items to the top of the list, to sort them in alphabetical order, and to check/uncheck them all.

Regular Buttons: When checked, the toolbar shows the standard "extruding" buttons. Otherwise, the new flat buttons (Office 97) are displayed.

Show Caption: Use this option to display captions in the buttons. The width of these buttons is automatically determined by the size of the longest caption.

Show Tool Tips: Tool Tips appear when you place the mouse cursor over a toolbar button. You can disable this feature by turning this option off.

Show Separators: If you have set the Regular Buttons option, separators add blank space between the buttons where they are placed. With the flat buttons, separators are displayed as chiseled vertical lines. If you do not want to display separators, just disable this option.

Wrap Toolbar: If this option is set and the editor window is too small to display all the buttons, the toolbar will resize itself and wrap the buttons to the next line.

Click Sound: Plays the chosen WAV file or makes PC speaker beep when buttons are clicked.

Play Sound: Sound file to play when the Click Sound option is enabled.

Button Width: Sets button width in pixels. Use 0 or leave blank to adjust width automatically.

Caption Font: This button opens the Font dialog box and lets you change the default font used for the toolbar button captions.