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dedr: reviewedfloating toolbars; usingtoolbars; floating toolbarstoolbars; openingopening; toolbarsUsing Floating Toolbars
The Insert icon is located at the top of the Main Toolbar of a text document. Long-click on this icon. This opens a floating toolbar containing further icons.
Tearing off a floating toolbar
You now have a choice: either click the icon that you want to activate, or seize the floating toolbar by its title bar and drag it away from the Main Toolbar while holding down the mouse button. You first have to release the mouse button, otherwise you cannot seize the title bar with the mouse.Now look at the icon at the top of the Main Toolbar with which you opened the floating toolbar. You always see the icon from the floating toolbar that you used last. If you click the Insert Graphics icon, you will see that icon at the top of the Main Toolbar instead. A short click opens the directly visible function, whereas a long click opens the floating toolbar again.To Make a Toolbar a Floating ToolbarDo one of the following:Hold down the Ctrl key, click in an empty part of the toolbar, and drag the toolbar into the document.Hold down the Ctrl key and double-click in an empty part of the toolbar.To Reattach a Floating ToolbarHold down the Ctrl key and drag the title bar of the toolbar to an edge of the document window.