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Customizing the toolbar buttons – Apple Aperture 2 User Manual

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Chapter 2

The Aperture Interface

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Customizing the Toolbar Buttons

Aperture provides a simple drag-and-drop interface for adding, deleting, and
rearranging the toolbar buttons.

To customize the toolbar:

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Do one of the following:

 Choose View > Customize Toolbar.
 Control-click the toolbar, then choose Customize Toolbar from the shortcut menu.

A dialog appears, showing icons for toolbar buttons and tools.

2

Configure the toolbar by doing any of the following:

 To add tools to the toolbar: Drag their icons from the dialog to the location where you

want them to appear in the toolbar.

 To remove items from the toolbar: Drag them out of the toolbar, or Control-click the

item you want to remove and choose Remove Item from the shortcut menu.

 To change the order of the items in the toolbar: Drag each item to its new position.
 To control whether each tool’s icon and text appear in the toolbar: Choose Text Only,

Icon Only, or Icon & Text from the Show pop-up menu in the lower-left corner of the
dialog, or Control-click the toolbar and choose Text Only, Icon Only, or Icon & Text
from the shortcut menu.

3

Click Done when you have finished configuring the toolbar.

To reset the toolbar to its default state:

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Drag the default toolbar up from the bottom of the dialog and into the toolbar area.

Default toolbar