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How to costumize your toolbar on a Apple Mac

Wed, Sep 10, 2008

Macs

If you bought your own Mac, you want to create your own style. Some people like big icons other small. You can fully costumize your toolbar. You can play with the settings. If something went wrong you can restore to default settings.

Tips

- When you customize the toolbar, your changes affect the toolbar in all windows in which the toolbar is displayed.
- To display the toolbar, click the Toolbar control button in the upper-right corner of a Finder window, choose View > Show Toolbar, or press Option-Command-T


To customize the toolbar

1. With any Finder window open and the toolbar displayed, choose View > Customize Toolbar. The Customize Toolbar dialog sheet appears.

2. Make changes to the toolbar contents as follows:

- To add an item to the toolbar, drag it from the dialog sheet to the position you want it to occupy in the toolbar. When you release the mouse button, the item appears on the toolbar.

- To remove an item from the toolbar, drag it off the toolbar. When you release the mouse button, the item disappears in a puff of digital smoke.

- To rearrange the order of items on the toolbar, drag them into the desired position. When you release the mouse button, the items are rearranged

3. To specify how items should appear on the toolbar, choose an option from the Show pop-up menu at the bottom of the window.

Icon & Text displays both the icon and the icon’s name.
Icon Only displays only the icon.
Text Only displays only the name of the icon.

4. To display smaller size toolbar buttons, turn on the Use Small Size check box.

5. When you are finished making changes, click Done.

Tip

You don’t have to use the Customize Toolbar dialog to rearrange or remove toolbar items. Just hold down command (the apple key) and drag the item you want to move to a new position or drag the item you want to remove off the toolbar.

To restore the toolbar to its default settings

- With any Finder window displaying the toolbar open, choose View > Customize Toolbar. The Customize Toolbar dialog sheet appears.
- Drag the group of items in a box near the bottom of the window to the toolbar. When you release the mouse button, the toolbar’s default items appear).
- Click Done.

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