The ability to customize toolbars in GX3 is a very useful feature. Before you start making changes, here are a few things to consider:
• There is no risk to trying out a changed toolbar button lineup. Worldox remembers what the toolbar was as originally installed. You can easily choose to restore the original toolbar.
Note: Any changes already made in button position, name or graphics are not reversed when you restore the entire toolbar. You do get the original buttons back, but they appear wherever you last placed them, and with the most recent name/graphic changes made, if any.
• Changing button icons is also a no-risk event. If you switch to a new graphic and then don't like it, it's easy to restore the original icon.
There is no similar "remembered" list of button names. If you rename a button, you'll have to remember the original name in case you later decide to change it back.
Prioritize.
What are the actions you do most often in Worldox? Those are the likely choices for buttons on toolbars. "Nice to have" choices that you only use occasionally are better left off toolbars. There is little advantage in having such choices visible, when they are easily reached via pull-down menus (where all possible button choices appear anyway).
Add only necessary buttons.
With too many buttons on a toolbar, the text labels will never appear, and/or you'll have to scroll left-and right to see the entire toolbar. Understanding which choices you need most (item #1 above) is the best way to control button proliferation.
Use separators to visually organize your button layout.
Here, for example, is how related choices are organized in the default (starting) button line-up:
Check Out and Check In belong together, being strongly linked in what those actions do. The same is true of Copy and Move. Bordering these button pairs with vertical line separators groups them together, makes them easier to pick out and recognize.
