Customising Toolbars

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IBM SPSS permits you to customize existing toolbars and create new toolbars to suit your needs

Toolbars can contain any of the available tools, including tools for all menu actions

They can also contain custom tools that launch other applications, run syntax files or script files

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From the menus choose: View > Toolbars In the Show Toolbars dialog box, select the toolbar you want

to customise and click Edit, or click New to create a new toolbar.

For new toolbars, enter a name for the toolbar, select the windows in which you want the toolbar to appear, and click Edit

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Select an item in the Categories list to display available tools in that category

Drag and drop the tools you want onto the Customizing Toolbar displayed in the dialog box

To remove a tool from the toolbar, drag it anywhere off the toolbar displayed in the Edit Toolbar dialog box

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To create a custom tool to open a file, to run a command syntax file, or to run a script:

• Click New Tool in the Edit Toolbar dialog box

• Enter a descriptive label for the tool

• Select the action you want for the tool (open a file, run a

command syntax file, or run a script)

• Click Browse to select a file or application to associate with the

tool

• New tools are displayed in the User-Defined category, which

also contains user-defined menu items

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