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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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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 (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 the same. |
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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