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Toolbars

Introduction

Most commands and features of Atlantis can be accessed through its toolbars:

Toolbars

Each of the toolbars includes commands belonging to a specific category.

The toolbars shown in the illustration below are permanently available in the Atlantis window:

Permanent toolbars

In addition to these standard toolbars, Atlantis also displays context toolbars in accordance with current document selection and other factors. For instance, a click within a table in the document window automatically brings up the "Table" toolbar next to the standard toolbars:

Context toolbar

Atlantis has many context toolbars dedicated to specific document features such as tables, headers/footers, footnotes/endnotes, hyperlinks, pictures, document projects, etc.

Each toolbar can include graphic buttons (for example, Button image Button image Button image) and combo boxes which look like this:

Toolbar combo box

Clicking toolbar buttons executes the associated command. In case of the combo boxes, you will normally use them by choosing an item from the drop-down list attached to each combo box.

A number of the toolbar buttons have a small "down" button displayed next to them. Clicking this "down" button opens a menu with additional commands. For example, the drop-down menu of the Save document as... Button image toolbar button offers the following related commands:

Toolbar drop-down menu

Most commands of the toolbars are one-click-away, and hovering over a toolbar gives you instant access to more commands in the same category:

Toolbar fly-out

Toolbar view options

Multiple global view options for toolbars are available through the "View | Toolbars" menu:

The 'View | Toolbars' menu

The same options can also be changed through the right-click menu of the toolbars.


The first three options of this menu control the visibility of the toolbars:

  • When the default option, "Show", is checked, the toolbars are constantly on in Atlantis.
  • If you need more space for document contents and you prefer to use the keyboard shortcuts exclusively to perform various actions in Atlantis, you can permanently hide the toolbars by choosing the "Hide" option.
  • When the "Autohide" option is on, the toolbars will become visible only when you hover the mouse closer to the top of the Atlantis window:
    Toolbar autohide
    Toolbar autohide


You can choose from two toolbar styles:

  • Under the tool bands style, the toolbars are split into separate tool bands. Each tool band includes commands belonging to a specific category:
    Tool bands
    Hovering the mouse over a tool band may display additional commands belonging to the same category.
  • Classic toolbars contain multiple continuous rows of commands from different categories:
    Classic toolbars


The toolbars are by default located at the top of the Atlantis window, right below the main menu. But you can have vertically aligned (left or right) toolbars in Atlantis, too:

Vertically aligned (left) toolbars
Vertically aligned (right) toolbars

Vertical toolbars will be useful on systems with wide screen displays, providing you with more space for document contents.


Watch a video: Vertical toolbars in Atlantis Word Processor   Vertical toolbars in Atlantis Word Processor

Customizing toolbars

To customize the toolbars, choose the "Tools | Customize | Toolbars..." menu command, or right-click the toolbars and choose the "Customize..." command. This would open the "Customize Toolbars" dialog:

The 'Customize toolbars' dialog

where you can toggle individual toolbars on or off, resize toolbars, change the commands displayed on each individual toolbar, customize the button size and spacing, and other options.

To customize individual toolbars, follow the instructions displayed at the top of the dialog.
To resize a combo box, grab & drag its right border:

Resizing combo box

By design, each toolbar can only host commands from its own category of commands. For example, only commands from the "File" category can be placed onto the "File" toolbar.

However, there are 3 special toolbars which can host any commands from all categories of commands. These "Custom 1", "Custom 2", and "Custom 3" toolbars are off by default:

Custom toolbars

But if you enable them, you can put commands from any category on them. Here is an example with toolbar "Custom 1" enabled:

Custom toolbars

All kinds of toolbar customization are possible with these custom toolbars. You can even replicate the classic toolbar layout of older versions of Atlantis if you prefer it over the default toolbar design of the latest versions Atlantis:

Old toolbars

Watch a video: Replicating old toolbars in Atlantis Word Processor 3.1   Replicating old toolbars in Atlantis Word Processor


Besides allowing you to customize individual toolbars, the dialog also offers multiple global customization options affecting all the toolbars.

Global options

There are three available sizes of toolbar buttons:

Button sizes

Each toolbar usually has two parts - the permanent one displaying all the time, and the fly-out part with additional commands displaying when you hover the mouse over this toolbar. The "Command rows" option available for the top-aligned toolbars allows you to specify the height of the permanent part of the toolbars. More "command rows" means more commands within the permanent part and fewer commands within the fly-out part. You can choose fewer "command rows" to provide more space for the other components of the Atlantis GUI (including document contents).

You can control the luminosity of button images with the "Icon brightness" option.

The "More Options" button displays a menu with additional options:

More options

Toggle the "Compact button spacing" option to change spacing between the toolbar buttons:

Button spacing

When the "Toolbar names" option is on, Atlantis displays the toolbar name at the bottom of its fly-out part:

Toolbar names

The toolbar combo boxes display previews of their currently selected items if the "Toolbar previews" option is checked:

Toolbar previews

For each toolbar button, when you hover the mouse over it, Atlantis can display two types of tooltips - a brief tooltip with a short one-line command description:

Brief tooltip

and an advanced tooltip with a more detailed description:

Advanced tooltip

You can choose which tooltips should be displayed.

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