How can you pull out and tear off menu items. Example how do i tear off the shape tools from the toolbox etc..?
Thank you
Hello dreamwizard; You can try selecting the icon you wish to remove hold down the Alt key and drag it to the page.Or do what Mike is saying.
George
First off thank you to you both for your replies. However, I am aware of these options to create my own custom menu but all i want to do is pull off or tear off the entire sub-menu to be able to have those tools available without having to click on the fly-out every time. In previous versions there were dots along the top the I could click and drag to pull out a the tools.
I'm just not sure if they removed that option or if i'm missing something. It seem unlikely to me that they would have removed such a basic and useful option.
I should add that the dots to pull it off only become available once you unlock the toolbars.
Hello TheSignGuy,
Again, thank you for your response but I'm not trying to edit the toolbar or command bar or create a custom toolbar but simply pull out the fly-out menu from the toolbox as illustrated in my image. Maybe i'm not being clear in my explanation i'll try to better illustrate what I mean when I have a little more time.
However, I do appreciate everyone's help. :)
Hi dreanwizard
George has a image of the of the tools and down at the bottom you will see a circle with a X in it if you click on this and follow the customization list
you will be able to move the selected tool or the tool fly out I have just done both of them
Do not forget to unlock and lock the tool bar when finished
Not the same as it used to be
Joe
Hi Joe,
Thanks for your reply but that is also not what I'm referring to. Obviously i haven't articulated it clearly enough here so I will make a better attempt with the appropriate illustrative images. I do appreciate all your help.
Hopefully this series of images helps to illustrate what i'm trying to do. I'm not trying to customize anything simply trying to "tear off" the submenu from the toolbar as could be done in every version before x7. (once toolbars are unlocked for x6 and x7)
Step 1 - Select desired fly-out menu
Step 2 - Click to expand desired fly-out to reveal sub tools
Step 3 - Click and drag on dotted line at the top of sub-menu to "tear-off" the sub-options. An icon with arrows pointing in all directions indicating this can be moved appears.
Step 5 - Now that the sub-menu item is detached from the toolbox, move it to desired location on screen. Once you are done with the tools you can just click the "X" to close the window and the tools are back in the toolbox. Nothing was customized.
I hope this does a better job of explaining what I mean. And thank you all for your help. This isn't a huge deal but a minor annoyance that will require me to work in a different, and to me less intuitive way but I'm sure I'll get used to it. I just don't understand why this wouldn't be possible other than perhaps a change I'm missing or an over-sight on Corel's part.
It is (as far as I know) no longer possible to tear off a submenu like it used to be.It is fairly easy to create it though, using some of the steps already described.
Easiest way must be to:While holding Ctrl and Alt, drag the Shape tool (for example) to the drawing area. Ctrl will make sure you copy and not only move.You now have a new toolbar that you can customize.Click the Shape tool icon to make the flyout appear and start dragging the items to the new toolbar while holding Alt (if you drag from thew newly created toolbar) or Ctrl+Alt (if you drag from the toolbox and don't want to lose the original icons).This new toolbar can be opened and closed, or docked like any other toolbar.
Hope this helps.
Edit: Looks like the original submenu icons in the toolbox disappear, even if you Alt+drag the new toolbar icons, so you must reset the toolbox afterwards to make them reappear. Or use Ctrl+Alt+drag to copy instead.
...and by the way, there's a new feature in X7 to help customizing toolbars:Click the "+" symbol at the end of the toolbar and explore the possibilities.
A step backwards then?
clint1 said:A step backwards then?