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# Customizing &brandShortName;

In this section: Toolbar Customization Enhancing &brandShortName; Functionality

## Toolbar Customiation

&brandShortName; has toolbars which can be customized by the user to suite their likings. The users can keep their most frequently used buttons on the toolbars and hide those rarely used in effect making it easier to use, and giving the users the satisfaction to tailor the look of &brandShortName; according to their preferences.

### How to Customize Toolbars

To open the toolbar customize window, Click on View > Show/Hide > Customize Toolbar and select the toolbar you want to customize. Or you can right-click with the mouse on the toolbar you want to edit and select "Customize Toolbar".

To customize the toolbars

- You can click-and-drag a button, separator, flexible space, or space item to the toolbar where you want to add that item.
- You can drag items (button, space, flexible space or separator) from the toolbar and drop them back in customizing window.
- You can also change the look of the toolbar buttons (Main Toolbar) by either selecting Icons and Text, Icons or only Text to be displayed.

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## Enhancing &brandShortName; Functionality

&brandShortName; has an inbuilt mechanism to enhance its already powerful functions. New functionality can be added to &brandShortName; by adding extensions. Extentions are small programs which give users new features or functions when installed in &brandShortName;. Users can choose to install the extensions they want. Thus extensions allow users to have a customized installation of &brandShortName;. To install an extension:

- Download the extention to your computer and save it in a convenient location. Most of the extensions can be downloaded from &brandShortName; web site.
- Open Extension Manager(EM) by clicking on Tools > Extensions. The EM will list all the installed extensions (if any).
- Click on Install button to install the extension you just downloaded.
- Select the extension by browsing to it in the file system browser window and click on the Open button.
- Click the Install Now button in the Software Installation window.
- After installation in complete, restart &brandShortName; to start using the features added by the newly installed extension.

You should regularly check for updates for the installed extensions with the Extension Manager. Updates usually improve the features offered by the extensions and resolve problems in older versions.

18 June 2005

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