Customize

This command lets you customize your toolbars, menus, and keyboard shortcuts. It displays a tabbed dialog. The various tabs are explained below.

Commands tab

This tab contains commands that you can drag onto your menus and toolbars. It allows you to add commands and modify existing commands on the Menu bar or any toolbar. For detailed instructions, see the Menu tab.

The commands are categorized by which menu they belong to. To see the commands for a particular menu, select that menu in the Categories list box. To see all the available commands, select All Commands.

You can also select New Menu, which allows you to drag a new submenu onto the menu you're customizing. After you've created the submenu, you can drag commands onto it. To rename the submenu, right-click its name, and in the resulting context menu, select Button Appearance; in the resulting dialog, type the new name in the Button Text edit box. To give the name a mnemonic, insert an ampersand before the character that should be the mnemonic.

Toolbars tab

This tab allows you to create, rename, delete, and reset your toolbars. The following table describes the tab options.

Option	Description
Toolbars listbox	Displays the toolbars built into the application and any toolbars you create. When you show a toolbar, a check mark appears to the left of it. NOTE: The Menu Bar cannot be hidden. It can only be reset.
Reset	Removes any changes to the built-in toolbars and resets them to their original state. Only available if you select a built-in toolbar.
Reset All	Resets all built-in toolbars and menus to their original state.
New	Opens the New Toolbar dialog box where you type the name for your new toolbar in the Toolbar name box.
Rename	Opens the Rename Toolbar dialog box where you type the new name for your toolbar. Only available if you select a user-defined toolbar.
Delete	Deletes a user-defined toolbar from your project. Only available if you select a user-defined toolbar.

Keyboard tab

This tab allows you to customize keyboard shortcuts (also known as shortcut keys or keyboard accelerators) by assigning them to a command. You can also remove keyboard shortcuts. To assign or remove a keyboard shortcut:

In the Categories box, select the category that contains the command that you want to assign a keyboard shortcut to or remove a keyboard shortcut from.
In the Commands box, select the name of the command that you want to assign a keyboard shortcut to or remove a keyboard shortcut from. Any keyboard shortcuts that are currently assigned to that command appear in the Current keys box, or below the box with the label Assigned to.
To assign a keyboard shortcut do the following:
1. Begin keyboard shortcuts with CTRL or a function key. In the Press new shortcut key box, press the combination of keys that you want to assign. For example, press CTRL plus the key that you want to use.
2. Look at Current keys (or Currently assigned to) to see whether the combination of keys is already assigned to a command. If the combination is already assigned, type a different combination.
3. Select Assign.
To remove a keyboard shortcut:
1. In the Current keys box, select the keyboard shortcut that you want to remove.
2. Select Remove.

Menu tab

This tab allows you to change the appearance of the application frame menus and context menus. First select the menu you wish to customize.

For frame menus, use the Show Menus for drop list; in this case, you must also show the selected menu, by left-clicking it.
For context menus, use the Select Context menu drop list; in this case, the selected context menu is shown automatically.

Once you've selected and shown the menu, you can customize it as follows:

To move a command up or down within the menu, drag the command to the desired position.
To remove a command from the menu, drag the command off of the menu.
To add a command to the menu, first switch to the Commands tab. Then drag the desired command from the Commands list box onto the menu, and drop it at the desired position.
To insert a separator, right click on the menu at the position where the separator should go, and in the resulting context menu, select Start Group.
To change the text or appearance of a command, right-click it, and in the resulting context menu, select Button Appearance. This same context menu also lets you delete the command, hide the command's image if any, or reset the command to its default state.
To reset the entire menu to its original state, press the appropriate Reset button in the Menu tab.

The tab also lists animations you can apply to your menu bar, and lets you enable or disable menu shadows.

Options tab

This tab allows you to change the appearance of your menu bar and toolbars; for example, you can change the size of your toolbar buttons, and show ToolTips and shortcut keys. The following table describes the options.

Option	Description
Show ScreenTips on toolbars	Turns ScreenTips off and on.
Show shortcut keys in ScreenTips	Displays the shortcut keys on the menus.
Large icons	Changes the toolbar icons to a larger size.