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How to create a new, custom
toolbar
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
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- 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 (see Step
1, below) 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 button
to specify the path to the related macro.)
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]
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"...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.
Two methods to locate the
current default template
1. See this Corel Knowledgebase
article [Answer ID 753791 (for WordPerfect 9+)] for information
on the location of your default template: "Where are the
WordPerfect® default templates?" at http://tinyurl.com/zfenw
2. The name of the default template
will be in the form WPNNUS.wpt, where NN is the main version
number (8 for WordPerfect 8, 9 for WordPerfect 2000, 10 for WordPerfect
2002, etc.) and US is the language code of your version, replace
it with your language version (like NL for Dutch, FR for french,
...). Use the Windows search option to search your harddisk for
a file named "WP*.WPT" then look in the list of results
for the file that corresponds with your current WP-version and
language version. If you find nothing you may have to enable
Windows to view Hidden Folders: From Windows Explorer click on
the Tools Menu, Select Folder Options, Click on the View tab,
Select Show hidden files and folders, Click on OK. Repeat the
search.
Rename the (old) default template
Close WP 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.
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Step
2. Moving or copying buttons from one toolbar to another
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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 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
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You can have 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 12/X3+ (but should also
work in earlier versions).
You will need to create the toolbar
inside the custom template (or copy it there) 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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