Work Environment -> Toolbars?

[Anonymous]

I give up. Maybe it's because it's Friday, but the Work Environment has me stumped.

I want to change the Standard toolbar so it has a button that is a compination Print/Print Setup, where you have to click the black arrow to get to the Print Setup. I would also like to create pop-down toolbar buttons that have several option and maybe even changes the button icon to the last command selected. I have spent about 1/2 hour on this and I just know I'm going to feel like a moron when I get the answer.

[James Murray]

Jay wrote:
I want to change the Standard toolbar so it has a button that is a compination Print/Print Setup, where you have to click the black arrow to get to the Print Setup...I would also like to create pop-down toolbar buttons that have several option and maybe even changes the button icon to the last command selected.

Any menu can be a button. The print setup popdown trick would be: Create a menu whose name is blank. Put the command on it. Then add a toolbar button for that menu. It will just be the triangle; small as you can get.

If it were me, I might want a pulldown with all the Print-related commands on it.

So you can have pulldowns for any groups of commands, just make a menu first. The changing icon bit, I doubt it.

Note that you can have create these menus and not have them on the menu bar.

[Anonymous]

Still not quite tracking with you. I can create all kinds of new toolbars, but they don't appear in the list on the left side of the dialog. It's as if I can only create first-level toolbars. Also, when I add any of the menus that are listed on the left, it puts the menu's name in the resulting toolbar button -- maybe because they are pull-down menus?

[Link]

Jay

Please take a look at the attachment. You need to make a menu first, then add that menu in your toolbar. What James is saying is that you don't need to give the menu a name, nor does it have to be a menu that appears in the menu bar, it can just be a menu for the purpose of including it in a toolbar, as a drop down list, like you want to do.

I have included two schemes, one with Print at the top level (in the button) and one with Print embedded (in the menu). One thing you can't do in your case AFAIK is have the button and a drop menu all in together, like the Guide Lines/Special Snap Points/Tracker buttons in the Standard toolbar. I think that functionality is only available with toggle (on/off) type commands.

Cheers,
Link.