SPSS tips for customising your toolbar to your needs

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Tech Tips - Customising Toolbars
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Tech Tips Customising Toolbars
• IBM SPSS permits you to customise 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
Tech Tips Customising Toolbars

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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 Customising 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.
Tech Tips Customising Toolbars

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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.
Tech Tips Customising Toolbars

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