Customize Toolbars Dialog: Toolbar Selection
The Customize Toolbars Dialog allows you to customize the toolbars in TradingSolutions to fit your individual preferences. The Toolbar Selection Page allows you to select which toolbars should be displayed, as well as create new ones.
Selecting the Toolbars to Display
By default, TradingSolutions displays only one toolbar, the Standard Tools toolbar. In addition to this toolbar, it has several other more specific toolbars that are included with TradingSolutions.
þ Standard Tools
This toolbar contains a collection of the most commonly used tools from the other toolbars.
þ Edit Tools
This toolbar contains tools for editing spreadsheet cells, such as cut, copy, and paste.
þ Field Tools
This toolbar contains tools for adding, modifying, and analyzing fields.
þ File Tools
This toolbar contains tools for importing and exporting different types of files.
þ General Tools
This toolbar contains the most commonly used tools from the Tools menu.
þ Help Tools
This toolbar contains the most commonly used tools from the Help menu.
þ Portfolio Tools
This toolbar contains tools for manipulating the Portfolio View.
þ View Tools
This toolbar contains tools for displaying different types of views.
Ä Note: The Menu bar is also listed with the other toolbars. However, it cannot be deselected.
In addition to these toolbars, you can also create your own toolbars by pressing the New… button. This will display the New Toolbar Dialog, which allows you to specify the name of your new toolbar.
Ä Note: New toolbars are created without any buttons. To add buttons to the new toolbar, use the Toolbar Buttons page.
Other Toolbar Options
The following options are also available from this dialog.
þ Show Tooltips
This option can be turned off so that TradingSolutions will not display a tool tip when the mouse is positioned over toolbar buttons.
þ Cool Look
This option can be turned off to add borders to the buttons.
þ Large Buttons
This option can be turned on to increase the size of all toolbar buttons.
p Reset
This button will reset the buttons currently included on the selected toolbar to its default tools.
Ä Note: This button is only available when one of the default toolbars is selected.
p Delete
This button will remove the selected toolbar if it was not included with TradingSolutions.
Ä Note: This button is only available when a user-created toolbar is selected.
What Do I Do Next?
When you are finished modifying the toolbars, press the OK button to use your changes or select another property page. You can also save your changes without exiting the dialog by pressing the Apply button. If you would like to exit from this dialog without making any changes, press the Cancel button.
Additional Property Pages
The Customize Toolbars Dialog has the following property pages.
This page allows you to select which toolbars should be displayed, as well as create new ones.
This page allows you to select which tool buttons should be displayed on each toolbar.
How Did I Get Here?
The Customize Toolbars Dialog appears when you select Customize Toolbars… from the Tools menu.