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Creating custom toolbars
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About creating custom toolbars

Several toolbars are provided with ArcMap and ArcCatalog, but you may want to create new toolbars to organize commands that you often use together or to contain buttons that run your custom program.

When you create a custom toolbar, in ArcMap for example, you can choose to save it in the Normal.mxt or within an ArcMap document (.mxd). If you save it within the .mxd, it is only available when you use that .mxd file. This concept also applies to any of the other ArcGIS Desktop applications.


How to create custom toolbars

Creating a new toolbar

  1. Click the Tools menu and click Customize.
  2. Click the Toolbars tab.
  3. Click New.
  4. Type in the name of your new toolbar.
  5. Click the drop-down arrow of the Save in combo box and choose the template in which this toolbar will be saved.
  6. Click OK.
    7. The new, empty toolbar appears in the Toolbars list; it is displayed in the application as a floating toolbar.
  7. Click Close.


Renaming a toolbar

  1. Click the Tools menu and click Customize.
  2. Click the Toolbars tab.
  3. Click the toolbar you want to rename.
  4. Click Rename.
  5. Type the name of your toolbar.
  6. Click OK.
  7. Click Close.

Tip

  • You can rename custom toolbars (ones created with the New button on the Customize dialog box), but you can't rename the toolbars that are core to the applications.

Deleting a toolbar

  1. Click the Tools menu and click Customize.
  2. Click the Toolbars tab.
  3. Click the custom toolbar you want to delete.
  4. Click Delete.
    5. The toolbar is removed from the Toolbars list.
  5. Click Close.

Tip

  • You can delete custom toolbars (ones created with the New button on the Customize dialog box), but you can't delete toolbars that are core to the applications.
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