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How to create a new, custom toolbar
Tips -
Create a vertical toolbar
Move or copy buttons from
another toolbar
Make a custom toolbar
automatically appear when you load a document
Related pages -
To just modify a standard toolbar,
see:
How
to create a toolbar button to play a macro, load a program,
or use a built-in WordPerfect feature
To modify just a property bar:
Adding buttons to the
context-sensitive Property Bars
To edit the icon on a toolbar
or property bar button:
How
to change those default "audiocassette" icons on toolbar
buttons |
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Note: To be able
to see toolbars you must have enabled them with View, Toolbars. |
Here's how
- Click on Tools, Settings, Customize, Toolbars
(tab).
- Next, click on Create and give the new toolbar
a name in the Create Toolbar dialog. While in the dialog, you
can click the Location button to specify the location -- typically,
the current template or the default template (which may be the
same item); some might want to use the Additional Objects template.
- Click OK to close the Create Toolbar dialog.
The Toolbar
Editor dialog should now be on screen
with the name of your new toolbar at the top of the dialog, and
the Features tab at the top should be active (if it is not, click
it).
You will find several "Feature categories"
in the top drop list (File, Edit, View ... etc.). Underneath
this list you will see the "Features:" drop list, which
displays the features available for the chosen Feature category.
Clicking on a feature will activate the Add Button button on
the dialog and also display an icon and brief description just
above the OK button. (These button icons are also useful as models
for your own custom buttons to play macros from a toolbar. See
http://wptoolbox.com/tips/EditIcon.html.)
Practice a bit: Select a feature and click
the Add Button button. You will see a new button appear on the
new toolbar. If you do not want the button, simply drag it form
the toolbar. (You can also remove it later by holding down the
<Alt> button while you drag it from the toolbar. Similarly,
you can reposition it later on the toolbar with the <Alt>+drag
method.)
You can add macros or even external programs
to the toolbar in a similar manner by first selecting the appropriate
tab (Macros or Programs) on the Toolbar Editor.
For more information on these topics, see
"How to create a toolbar button to play a macro, load a
program, or use a built-in WordPerfect feature" at http://wptoolbox.com/tips/CreateTB.html.
When finished adding buttons to the new toolbar,
click OK, then click Close to get back to the document screen.
Tips
 You can create a vertical toolbar with text labels (instead of graphic
icons) to quickly access your favorite folders, templates, and
files. See How
to Create a Vertical Toolbar with Text Buttons to Access Your
Favorite Folders, Templates and Files (a PDF document; 08/27/07, 140Kb).
You
can move or copy buttons from another toolbar -- even a toolbar used in an earlier version of WordPerfect
or located on another system.
The procedure below (Step 1) can be used to
first copy the toolbar to your current version of WordPerfect.
Then move or copy the button(s) to your new custom toolbar using
the procedure in Step 2 below. (For buttons that play macros,
you might have to edit the moved/copied button with the Toolbar
Editor to specify the path to the related macro on the current
system.)
Step 1. Copying toolbars
from another version of WordPerfect or from another computer
with WordPerfect installed on it. [From:
" Moving customizations from old default template to new"
at http://www.wpuniverse.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=12507]
"...In WordPerfect when you edit some
user settings, like a keyboard or a menu (there are others),
the customizations are saved in the default template. If you
want to keep your customizations when you install a new version
or when for troubleshooting you are asked to exit WordPerfect
and rename the default template (a new fresh one is created when
you restart WP), you need to copy the customizations (if any)
from the old template to the new default template."
Locate the current default template
[See Default
template - The default template's file name - Standard location
on disk (WP9 and later versions) - Actual location on disk -
Using Windows Explorer or My Computer to find your default template.]
Rename the (old) default template
Close WordPerfect and rename your default
template to something like WP-OLD.WPT.
Copy objects from the old template to the
new
- Start WordPerfect.
- Click File, New from Project.
- In the drop down list, select Custom WP Templates.
- Right click on each listing for Create a
blank document, select project properties, check the project
filename, when you have determined which one says WP-OLD.WPT,
click once to select the file.
- Click Options, Edit WP Template.
- Click Copy/Remove Object on the Template
Toolbar.
- In "Templates to copy from" section,
select your renamed file (WP-OLD.WPT). ... On the left side the
old template will be listed and on the right side the new WP
template will be listed. On the left side there is a section
called "Object type" this list the different categories
from the template file. (Toolbars, Keyboards, Macros etc..)
- Select a Object type [i.e., Toolbars], then
select an item you want to move to the new template and click
on the Copy button.
- Repeat the process until all the customized
items are transferred to the new template. When finished click
on the Close button.
Step 2. Moving or copying
buttons from one toolbar to another
You can move or copy an existing button from
one toolbar to another (assuming both are visible).
- To move it, hold down the <Alt> key
while you drag the button to the desired location on other toolbar.
- To copy it, hold down the <Ctrl> and
<Alt> keys while you drag it.
Most people probably will want to copy the
button, not move it, so that the source toolbar remains the same.
You
can make a custom toolbar appear whenever you load a new
document based on a custom template
(e.g., a letterhead or invoice template). The following information
is valid for WordPerfect X3+ (but should also work in earlier
versions).
You will need to create the toolbar inside
the custom template (or copy it there) as described above and
then create a small template macro that is triggered
by the Post New trigger. (N.B.: This and other aspects
of automating templates can be found in the author's Automating
WordPerfect Templates.) The macro would consist of these
two ButtonBar commands (where "My Toolbar" should be
replaced by the actual custom toolbar name):
ButtonBarSelect(ButtonBarName:"My
Toolbar"; LoadedFromDefaultTemplate:No!)
ButtonBarShow(State:On!;
ButtonBarName:"My Toolbar"; LoadedFromDefaultTemplate:No!)
Related Tips
- To modify a button's default icon (the gray
audiocasette image), click here.
- If you put an ampersand ("&")
in the Button Text, the letter that folllows the ampersand can
be used with the <Alt> key to play the macro, in addition
to clicking the toolbar button itself. For example, if the
Button Text is something like "Fax this document,"
and you change it to "&Fax this document," then
<Alt+F> will play the macro, the same as if you click the
button with your mouse. Note that, in this example, <Alt+F>
would normally bring up the WP File menu; now it will not. So,
to bring up the File menu, simply press and release the
<Alt> key, then press the <F> key. [Thanks
to P. Wolfgang Deiminger for the ampersand tip.]
- To delete a button from the property
bar (or a toolbar) when you are back in the document window,
simply hold down the <Alt> key and drag the button off
the bar.
- If you want to create a button on one of
WP's context-sensitive property bars, and it seems to
disappear whenever you need it, see "Adding
buttons to the context-sensitive Property Bars".
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