good morning Ester and all:
Thank you for the reply.
I originally thought the same thing that I had hidden the tool bar.
however, I figured out that the toolbar was still visible because the
reply button was still visible. I discovered that I had right clicked
on the back button in the toolbar while investigating a website. the
cursors were not playing nice with one another. I had hit the down
arrow and pressed return without really knowing what I was doing.
that removed the back button. there is a menu that appears if you
right click on an item on the toolbar which gives you the option of
removing an item from the toolbar.
I removed com.apple.Safari.plist and that did solve the problem of
restoring the original settings. however, if I wanted to add any of
the additional options that are available, print only being one of
them, I cannot figure out how to do it.
In short, if I wanted to just use the options that are already on the
toolbar, I can. if I want to add something, I cannot figure out how
to do it. I really wanted to add the print button to my sighted
father's machine. he is 81 years old and some concepts on the
computer still allude him (smile). I get to be the mac expert in his
household (smile again). that is where the print question came from.
I will keep digging though if anyone else strikes gold before i do,
please let me know.
I am still believing that drag and drop might be the enemy here (groan).
patrick
On Apr 28, 2007, at 10:53 AM, Esther wrote:
Hi Patrick,
Sorry for the repeat post; I had problems getting .Mac to send on
my reply. Summarizing again here.
I discovered that I could remove items from the safari toolbar by
accident (smile). although I am not discovering how to add things
back to the toolbar. i accidentally removed the back and forward
buttons from the toolbar and I would like to replace them as well as
add print and home to the collection.
You probably hit the shortcut key sequence for hiding the address bar
in Safari, command-shift-backslash (where backslash is the key above
the carriage return key, and below the delete key at the right).
You can get the Safari forward and back buttons back by choosing
"Show Address Bar" under the Safari View menu options. This is the
first entry that is above the customize address bar option you
explored.
Showing or hiding the address bar is a toggle option, so typing the
shortcut sequence of command-shift-backslash is another way to
get this back. VoiceOver should say "Show Address Bar" or "Hide
Address Bar".
If you only managed to delete the forward and back buttons, and not
hide the address bar, you can get back the default Safari appearance
by trashing your com.apple.Safari.plist under your Library/Preferences
folder.
Do you need a separate print button on your Safari toolbar? I just
use
"command-P" whenever I need to print.
Someone else may have other suggestions on how to customize the
Address bar without drag and drop, since I haven't used this myself.
HTH
Cheers,
Esther
