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5. Additional buttons can be added to this menu for toolbars: right-click in an empty
new toolbar. space on any toolbar to access it. See
6. By default, a new toolbar will inherit the “Contextual Menus” on page 39.
name of the first tool that was added to
it, preceded by the word Custom. You Restoring Toolbars
can assign a new name in the Toolbar To discard your changes and restore all
Customization dialog. See “Toolbar installed Toolbar Configurations to their
Panel” on page 147. original condition, click the Reset Toolbars
7. Still on the TOOLBAR panel, specify the button in the Toolbar Customization dialog.
View Types that the new toolbar should See “Toolbar Panel” on page 147.
be used in.
Because Reset Toolbars affects all Toolbar
Configurations, you may find it worthwhile
You can use the Empty Space button in to create your own custom Toolbar
your toolbars as a spacer.
Configurations.
Locking Toolbars You can also restore toolbars to their original
state in the Preferences dialog. Note that if
When your toolbars are organized the toolbars are restored using this option, any
way you want them, you can select custom configurations that you have created
Tools> Toolbars and Hotkeys> Lock will be discarded. See “Reset Options Panel”
Toolbars to prevent them from being moved. on page 136.
Select the same tool to unlock toolbars. Lock
Toolbars is also available in the contextual

Creating Custom Toolbar Configurations
If you extensively edit your toolbars, you 3. Give the new configuration a short,
may want to consider creating one or more unique name. It will be saved in the
custom Toolbar Configurations so that your Chief Architect Toolbars folder. See
changes can be backed up as well as “Chief Architect Data” on page 55.
transferred to a different computer if you 4. When you click Save, the new configu-
wish. ration will be active. It will appear in the
list, and will be highlighted.
To create a custom configuration
5. You can now move toolbars, add or
1. Go to the CONFIGURATIONS panel of the remove buttons, and add or remove tool-
Toolbar Customization dialog. bars to meet your requirements.
2. Select a configuration similar to the one 6. Select each of the different View Types
you want to create and click Copy. to see the toolbars active in each and
confirm that they suit your needs.

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