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TIP 4: Making Room on the Screen
Button It Up
You can further control your use of screen real estate by setting how the labels are displayed. Choose View > Toolbars > Show Button Labels and then select the Default, All, or No button label options. |
One of the best ways to save space, and your eyesight, is to control what tools you display on the screen. It is possible to open enough toolbars to fill a good portion of the screen, leaving very little room for the actual document. These tips help you "unclutter" your screen: If you have opened a number of toolbars and want to return to the default set, choose View > Toolbars > Reset Toolbars. Acrobat closes the extras and the layout reverts to the default toolbars in the default locations. Even using only the default toolbars and task buttons, you may find it confusing to figure out what you have to work with. Move your pointer over the hatched vertical line at the left edge of a toolbar to display the toolbar's name (Figure 4a).
Figure 4a. Display the name of a toolbar in a tip.
Tool tips can show you task button names. If the button is large enough to display both the icon and text, you don't learn anything new. However, if you move your pointer over the icon, you see the task button's name (Figure 4b).
Figure 4b. Display the name of a button in a tip
Move your pointer over the hatched vertical line and drag to pull a toolbar from its docked position. When you release the mouse, the toolbar is floating on the screen. Drag the toolbar back to the toolbar area and release the mouse to dock it again. Task buttons work slightly differently. You can't drag an individual task button off the Task Bar (as you can with individual tools on toolbars); if you try, you'll remove the entire Task Button toolbar. Choose View > Task Buttons, and select or deselect the buttons as you require.
Locking Toolbars
When you close and reopen a program, the arrangement of toolbars and task buttons is maintained. If you like a particular arrangement of toolbars, you can lock it. When you get to the point when you are "one with the program," you can select tools and keep working without searching for a tool. Choose View > Toolbars > Lock Toolbars. The separator bars between the individual toolbars disappear. Floating toolbars don't lock, and they can't be docked with a locked toolbar. |
Rather than using the Main menu, save one step when changing toolbars. Right-click or Control-click the toolbar to display the same options available from the Toolbars submenu (Figure 4c).
Figure 4c. Use the shortcut menu to display many of the commands available from the View menu.
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