Toolbars are made up of buttons. Each button performs an action when clicked (for example, italicizing selected text). For many tasks, it's faster to click a toolbar button than to use drop-down menus or to recall and type keyboard shortcuts.

Notes includes:

• Over 150 predefined toolbar buttons, including buttons for most Notes menu commands
• Over a dozen custom toolbar buttons to which you can assign your own macros

Toolbars are also context-sensitive by default. That is, the toolbars change, depending on what you are doing in Notes. For example, if you're editing a document, Notes automatically displays a toolbar you can use for editing.

Note You can turn this context-sensitive feature off in Toolbar Preferences.

Notes comes with a universal toolbar that displays in every context in addition to the context toolbars. You can create and save your own toolbar and use it in place of the universal toolbar.

Toolbar Preferences let you modify the look and scope of your toolbars. (Choose File - Preferences - Toolbar Preferences. Macintosh OS X users: Notes - Preferences - Toolbar Preferences.). Once modified, your toolbar changes remain in effect until you decide to change them again. You do not have to set toolbar preferences with each new session of Notes.

With Toolbar Preferences, you can also select to display descriptions of each toolbar button. When you move the cursor over a button, a brief description of the button and the corresponding keyboard shortcut will appear.

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