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Normally you have this option on only if you want your NavBar to appear on all pages of
your website. However you can manually delete the bar from pages if desired.

The site navigation bar is also useful for automatically repopulating the menu items on a
single button NavBar after converting it from a multi-button NavBar. See Single button
NavBars (on page 417) for more info.

Moving and transforming a site navigation bar
If you move a site navigation bar on the page, the bar is also moved on all the other
pages on which it appears. Similarly if you scale the bar to make it larger or smaller using
the SELECTOR TOOL, again the same transformation is applied to the copy of the bar on
the other pages. No other transformations of a NavBar using the SELECTOR TOOL are
supported (rotation, skew, scaling in one dimension).

Automatic page linking
Whenever you add a new page to your site, a link to that page will be added to your site
navigation bar for you and the new page will be given a copy of the bar, if it doesn’t
already have one. If your bar has an unused button on it, then the first such button will be
linked to your new page. If all buttons are already linked, a new button is automatically
added to the end of your bar and it is linked to the new page. In either case, the label of
the button is changed to match the name of the new page, if it has a name, or to "New
page" otherwise. Normally you will want to immediately edit this new label in the NavBar
dialog.

When you delete a page from your website, the button linking to it on your site navigation
bar is automatically deleted for you, on all pages of your site.

Turning site navigation bars on and off
When you turn the site navigation option on or off in the NavBar dialog, the change is
reflected in all copies of that bar on all pages of your website.

Deleting a site navigation bar from a page
If you don’t want the site navigation bar on a particular page of your site, you can simply
click on it to select it on that page and hit "Delete". You’ll be asked whether you want to
delete the bar from just that page, or from all pages.
However after removing the bar from one or more pages, note that if you subsequently
turn off the site navigation bar option (perhaps in order to edit the button design, which
can’t be done with the option on), and then later turn it back on again, the bar will be
added automatically to all the pages of your site that don’t have it.
Templates & Site navigation bars
All the single page templates in the ONLINE CONTENT CATALOG have their NavBars set to
be site navigation bars when you load them from the gallery to start a new website
document. This means you can rapidly build a small website with all pages linked to the
bar, without having to add buttons and page links manually. Similarly all website