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Enhance Your Folders
Instead of wasting time clicking through one drop-down menu after another until you find the Windows feature you want, you can make your folders more user friendly by adding shortcuts to commonly used commands. Follow these steps:
Note: Any changes you make will be applied to all of your folders.
1. Double-click any folder to open it.
2. Click the View drop-down menu.
3. Select Toolbars.
4. Select Customize.
5. The Customize Toolbar window opens. In the left window pane, under the Available Toolbar Buttons heading, scroll down and click Cut.
6. In the middle of the window, click the Add button.
7. The Cut icon will appear in the Current Toolbar Buttons window pane on the right. To change its position in your folders’ toolbars, click the Move Up or Move Down button. Each time you click one of these buttons, the icon moves one space up the list or one space down the list.
The higher you place the icon, the farther to the left it will appear in your folders’ toolbars. The lower you place the icon, the farther to the right it will appear in your folders’ toolbars.
8. Repeat this procedure for the Copy, Paste, and Delete icons, and for any other options you want to add to your folders’ toolbars.
9. If you change your mind and want to delete an icon from the list, select it, and then click the Remove button.
10. To separate the icons from one another or to arrange them in groups,
you can add thin vertical lines known as separators. Here’s how:
a. Under the Available Toolbar Buttons heading, click the Separator icon.
b. Add it to the right window pane in the same way you added the other icons.
c. Change the separator’s position by clicking the Move Up or Move Down button.
d. To add more separators, repeat this process until the toolbar is organized to your liking.
11. To help you identify the icons, you can place names next to them. Click the drop-down menu labeled Text Options.
a. If you want all of the icons to have names, select Show Text Labels.
b. If you want just the important icons to have names, select Selective Text on Right.
c. If you do not want any names to be displayed, select No Text Labels.
12. When you are finished customizing the toolbar, click the Close button.
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