# About customizing toolbars

Microsoft Internet Explorer toolbars provide convenient shortcuts you can use to browse the Web, open the Internet Scrapbook, visit favorite pages, and more. You can customize Internet Explorer toolbars in many ways. For example, you can:

- Show or hide a toolbar.
- Add, move, or remove buttons on the Button Bar, or choose a predefined set of buttons.
- Add, move, or remove links to your favorite pages on the Favorites Bar.
- Change the color of the toolbars.
- Show or hide text on the Button Bar.

If a toolbar button or link does not fit in your display, Internet Explorer displays the More button . To use a button or link that does not fit in your display, click More, and then click the button or link you want.

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Showing or hiding a toolbar

Expanding or collapsing the toolbars

Showing or hiding the Explorer Bar

Changing the color of the toolbars

Adding a link to the Favorites Bar

Adding a button to the Button Bar

Changing the style of the Button Bar

Show or hide a toolbar

- On the View menu, click the toolbar you want to show or hide.

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Expanding or collapsing the toolbars

Showing or hiding the Explorer Bar

Changing the style of the Button Bar

Showing or hiding ToolTips

Show or hide the Explorer Bar

- On the View menu, click Explorer Bar.

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Showing or hiding a toolbar

Expanding or collapsing the toolbars

Expand or collapse the toolbars

- On the View menu, click Expand Toolbars or Collapse Toolbars.

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Showing or hiding a toolbar

Showing or hiding the Explorer Bar

Changing the style of the Button Bar

Add a button to the Button Bar

1. On the View menu, click Customize Toolbars.

   The Customize Toolbars page appears in the Explorer window.

2. On the Customize Toolbars page, do one or more of the following:
   - To add a button, drag the button from the Customize Toolbars page to the location you want.
   - To add a predefined set of buttons, drag the button set you want to the Button Bar.
3. On the Customize Toolbars page, click Go Back.

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Adding a link to the Favorites Bar

Adding or removing the Go button

Moving a button on the Button Bar

Add or remove the Sherlock button

1. On the View menu, click Customize Toolbars.

   The Customize Toolbars page appears in the Explorer window.

2. Do one of the following:
   - To add the Sherlock button, drag the button from the Customize Toolbars page to the Button Bar.
   - To remove the Sherlock button, hold down and drag the button to the Trash.
3. On the Customize Toolbars page, click Go Back.

| The Sherlock button is available only if Apple Sherlock is installed in its default location, the Applications folder on your hard disk.

Move a button on the Button Bar

- Hold down , and then drag the button to the location you want.

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Adding a button to the Button Bar

Removing a button from the Button Bar

Remove a button from the Button Bar

- Hold down CONTROL, click the button you want to remove, and then click Delete on the contextual menu.

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Moving a button on the Button Bar

Change the color of the toolbars

- On the View menu, point to Browser Color, and then click the color you want.

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Changing the style of the Button Bar

Change the style of the Button Bar

1. On the Explorer menu, click Preferences.
2. Under Web Browser, click Browser Display.
3. On the Toolbar Style pop-up menu, click the style you want.

| To quickly change the toolbar style, hold down CONTROL, click the Button Bar, and then click the style you want on the contextual menu.

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Expanding or collapsing the toolbars

Changing the color of the toolbars

Showing or hiding ToolTips

Show or hide ToolTips

1. On the Explorer menu, click Preferences.
2. Under Web Browser, click Browser Display.
3. Select or clear the Show ToolTips check box.

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Showing or hiding a toolbar

Changing the style of the Button Bar

Add or remove the Go button

1. On the View menu, click Customize Toolbars.

   The Customize Toolbars page appears in the Explorer window.

2. Do one of the following:
   - To add the Go button, drag the Go button from the Customize Toolbars page to the Address Bar.
   - To remove the Go button, hold down CONTROL, click the Go button, and then click Delete on the contextual menu.
3. On the Customize Toolbars page, click Go Back.

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Adding a button to the Button Bar

Removing a button from the Button Bar

Add a link to the Favorites Bar

- Do any of the following:
  - To add a link to the current Web page, drag the page’s icon from the Address box to the Favorites Bar.
  - To add a Favorites folder or a folder on your hard disk, drag the folder to the Favorites Bar.
  - To add the destination page of a link on the current Web page, drag the link to the Favorites Bar.

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Showing or hiding a toolbar

Following a link on the Favorites Bar

Adding a button to the Button Bar

Follow a link on the Favorites Bar

- On the Favorites Bar, click the link you want.

| If the link you want to follow does not appear on the Favorites Bar, click More , and then click the link you want.

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Showing or hiding a toolbar

Adding a link to the Favorites Bar

Removing a link from the Favorites Bar

Remove a link from the Favorites Bar

- Hold down CONTROL, click the link you want to remove, and then click Delete on the contextual menu.

| If the link you want to delete does not appear on the Favorites Bar, click More , and then click Open Toolbar Favorites Window on the pop-up menu. In the Toolbar Favorites window, click the icon next to the link you want to delete, and then press DELETE.

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Showing or hiding a toolbar