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Chapter 4. Gnumeric Toolbars

4.1. The Gnumeric Toolbars

The toolbars contain many icons representative of some the more common operations a user may need to use. It is intended to provide fast access to these tools. Almost all of these functions is also available through the menu system.

Gnumeric has three toolbars, the standard toolbar, the format toolbar and the object toolbar. The three toolbars are shown in Figure 4-1.

Figure 4-1. The Three Gnumeric Toolbars

These toolbars will be discussed separately in the subsequent sections of this manual. User interaction with each toolbar happens in essentially the same way. Similarly, the toobars can be configured in the same way. The next section explains the standard behavior of Gnumeric toolbars.

4.1.1. General Toolbar Behavior

In the same way that menus can be moved around, as was explained Section 3.1.1, toolbars can be moved around the Gnumeric window by dragging the little tag on the leftmost portion of the toolbar.

If the Gnumeric window is too small to fit all of the toolbar buttons, gnumeric may display a little right pointing black arrow to indicate that there are more options. If the user clicks on this arrow, a window will open with the remaining buttons.

Certain toolbar options, such as the zoom box, are combinations of a button or text entry area and a downward pointing arrow. If the user clicks on the arrow, a list of avaliable options appears. It is also posible to "tear off" these options into a separate window in the same way as was explained for menus in Section 3.1.2.

The toolbars can be configured by a context-menu which opens when the user clicks with a particular mouse button on an empty part of the toolbars or on the toolbar handle. This menu is explained in Section 3.10.5.

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