"Andrew Robertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jim Ottaway
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have just been using OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 for the first time, and I
>> found the automatic pop-up behaviour of toolbars disconcerting,
>> particularly their prolific growth at the top of the application. I
>> would much prefer to be able to choose which toolbars were there, and to
>> use the menus for things not in my chosen toolbars.
>>
>> I have searched around in the help system, the menus, the configuration,
>> and the Internet, but I can't find a way to turn off this
>> context-sensitive pop-up behaviour. I would really like to be able to do
>> this, is it possible?
>>

> Go to VIEW/TOOLBARS and uncheck all the toolbars you don't want, and check
> all the ones you do want. If there are icons in a toolbar that you don't
> want to display, but you want the rest of the toolbar to display, click the
> dropdown arrow at the end of the toolbar, hover over "Visible Buttons" and
> uncheck any you don't want to show.

That's so simple, but it works.  Thank you.

So the view > toolbars menu doesn't just control the current toolbars,
but the sets the preferred visibility for future ones too? I think that
is what I had missed before.

Regards,

-- 
Jim Ottaway

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