De-clutter your toolbars

Make it easier to find the buttons you want

Here’s what the default toolbars look like:

And here’s mine. I removed everything I never use, and added some extras.

Stuff I deleted

• Save As. I do File… Save As.

• Save All - THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS BUTTON! I urge you to remove it to avoid accidentally saving every model you have open.

• Cut, Copy, Paste. I always use keyboard shortcuts.

• Validate and Time Series. I never use these.

• Take over Nominal Values. I have this done automatically (more on this in a later post).

• The 3 Excel buttons. Those are obsolete, created before the Excel Add-in was developed.

Stuff I added or changed

• I like the Find button to be on the left of the Filter button. See this post.

• See this post regarding the Convergence Diagram and Error Analysis buttons.

• I change the set of built-in Macros that are shown by hitting the “magic wand” button:

  

  then in the next screen, select “EBSILON”

  

  This exposes a set of macros that are occasionally useful for diagnostics. To be honest, I don’t use them very often.

How to Customize

You can customize the toolbar by right-clicking some blank area of the toolbar, then “Customize”. You can then drag buttons off the toolbars and dump them into this screen:

While in Customize mode, you can re-arrange buttons on the toolbar.

If you see anything else interesting in this screen, drag it onto the toolbar.

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