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# Using Toolbars

Some toolbar icons, for example the Font Color icon, can open another toolbar. Click the arrow next to the icon to open a toolbar containing further icons.

You now have a choice: either click the icon that you want to activate, or seize the toolbar by its title bar and drag it while holding down the mouse button.

## Context of Toolbars

Some toolbars open automatically depending on the context. For example, when you click inside a table in a text document, the Table toolbar opens. When you click inside a numbered paragraph, the Bullets and Numbering toolbar opens.

Toolbars are hidden by default when the Notebook bar is active.

### To Close a Toolbar Temporarily

Click the icon in the toolbar's title bar, or choose \<emph\>Close Toolbar\</emph\> from the context menu. The toolbar will be shown automatically again when the context becomes active again.

### To Close a Toolbar Permanently

Choose \<emph\>View - Toolbars\</emph\> and click the name of a toolbar to remove the check mark.

## To Show a Closed Toolbar

- Choose \<emph\>View - Toolbars\</emph\> and click the name of the toolbar.

- Choose \<emph\>View - Toolbars - Reset\</emph\> to reset the toolbars to their default context sensitive behavior. Now some toolbars will be shown automatically, dependent on the context.

## To Make a Toolbar a Floating Toolbar

- Click the handle at the start of the toolbar, and drag the toolbar into the document.

## To Reattach a Floating Toolbar

- Drag the title bar of the toolbar to an edge of the document window. \<switchinline select=\"sys\"\>\<caseinline select=\"WIN\"\>Alternatively, double-click a gray empty place without icons on the toolbar, while holding down the Ctrl key. \</caseinline\>\</switchinline\>

- To reattach a floating window, drag-and-drop the window's title bar to an edge of the document window. The mouse pointer should be very close to the document window's edge when you release the mouse button.

- Depending on your system's window manager settings, you may also double-click an empty place on the toolbar or window, while holding down the Command Ctrl
  key. Or double-click the title bar of the floating toolbar or window.

Docking toolbars and windows by drag-and-drop depends on your system's window manager settings. You must enable your system to show the full window contents when you move a window, instead of showing just the outer frame.

Related Topics

Showing, Docking and Hiding Windows

Notebook bar