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It is very easy to customize the layout of the toolbars in Thunderbird. To add/remove buttons or change the placement of buttons on a toolbar, go to the View menu and select Toolbars > Customize or, alternatively, right-click on the toolbar and select Customize. Then simply drag the buttons to where you want them to be. To remove a button, drag it down into the [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/screenshot.png special pane] that appears just below the toolbar. To add a button, drag it up from that same special pane and place it on the toolbar. If you want, you can even put buttons up on the menu toolbar.
It is very easy to customize the layout of the toolbars in Thunderbird. You can add/remove buttons or change the placement of buttons on a toolbar. The main Thunderbird window, the Compose window, and the Address Book window are individually customizable and have different sets of icons that you can add to or remove from each.
 
First open the window that you want to customize, and then go to the View menu and select Toolbars > Customize or, alternatively, right-click on the toolbar and select Customize. Then simply drag the buttons to where you want them to be. To remove a button, drag it down into the [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/screenshot.png special pane] that appears just below the toolbar. To add a button, drag it up from that same special pane and place it on the toolbar. If you want, you can even put buttons up on the menu toolbar.


Note: some Thunderbird [[Thunderbird : Tips : Extensions | extensions]] (such as the Buttons! extension) provide extra toolbar buttons as part of their functionality. Installing an extension does not automatically put its buttons on the toolbar, however. To add these buttons, you should do as described above for adding buttons to the toolbar.
Note: some Thunderbird [[Thunderbird : Tips : Extensions | extensions]] (such as the Buttons! extension) provide extra toolbar buttons as part of their functionality. Installing an extension does not automatically put its buttons on the toolbar, however. To add these buttons, you should do as described above for adding buttons to the toolbar.

Revision as of 02:24, 6 December 2004

It is very easy to customize the layout of the toolbars in Thunderbird. You can add/remove buttons or change the placement of buttons on a toolbar. The main Thunderbird window, the Compose window, and the Address Book window are individually customizable and have different sets of icons that you can add to or remove from each.

First open the window that you want to customize, and then go to the View menu and select Toolbars > Customize or, alternatively, right-click on the toolbar and select Customize. Then simply drag the buttons to where you want them to be. To remove a button, drag it down into the special pane that appears just below the toolbar. To add a button, drag it up from that same special pane and place it on the toolbar. If you want, you can even put buttons up on the menu toolbar.

Note: some Thunderbird extensions (such as the Buttons! extension) provide extra toolbar buttons as part of their functionality. Installing an extension does not automatically put its buttons on the toolbar, however. To add these buttons, you should do as described above for adding buttons to the toolbar.