# The Gnumeric Toolbars

The toolbars contain many icons representative of some the more common operations a user may need to use. It is intended to provide fast access to these tools. Almost all of these functions is also available through the menu system.

Gnumeric has three toolbars, the standard toolbar, the format toolbar and the object toolbar. The three toolbars are shown in .

## The Three Gnumeric Toolbars

These toolbars will be discussed separately in the subsequent sections of this manual. User interaction with each toolbar happens in essentially the same way. Similarly, the toobars can be configured in the same way. The next section explains the standard behavior of Gnumeric toolbars.

## General Toolbar Behavior

In the same way that menus can be moved around, as was explained , toolbars can be moved around the Gnumeric window by dragging the little tag on the leftmost portion of the toolbar.

If the Gnumeric window is too small to fit all of the toolbar buttons, gnumeric may display a little right pointing black arrow to indicate that there are more options. If the user clicks on this arrow, a window will open with the remaining buttons.

Certain toolbar options, such as the zoom box, are combinations of a button or text entry area and a downward pointing arrow. If the user clicks on the arrow, a list of avaliable options appears. It is also posible to "tear off" these options into a separate window in the same way as was explained for menus in .

The toolbars can be configured by a context-menu which opens when the user clicks with a particular mouse button on an empty part of the toolbars or on the toolbar handle. This menu is explained in .

# The Standard Toolbar

The standard toolbar is shown in .

## The Standard Toolbar.

The Standard Toolbar gives the user access to file operations, printing, movement of data blocks, the undo system, and to some of the powerful tools like the function creator and the graphing system.

New File.

  Create a new file.

Open

  Open an existing file.

Save

  Save the current worksheet to disk.

Print

  Print the current worksheet to a file or a printer.

Page Setup

  Display a print preview of the current worksheet.

Cut

  Copy the cells in the current selection to the clipboard buffer and mark them to be deleted from the current position. The cells will only be removed if they are pasted into a new position.

Copy

  Copy the cells in the current selection to the clipboard buffer.

Paste

  Paste the contents of the clipboard buffer into the active cell.

Undo

  Undoes the last operation undertaken.

Redo

  This is the reverse of the undo operation, restoring its orginal state.

Sum into the current cell

  Starts a simple sum formula in the selected cell with Gnumeric simply waiting for a selection to be made to complete the sum. The user selects the destination cell, pushes this button, enters the range to be summed and pushes the confirm button (green arrow) in the data entry area or types the Return key.

The function guru

  This button will start a formula in the current cell using the function guru.

Sort Ascending

  Sorts the selected region in ascending order based on the first column selected.

Sort Descending

  Sorts the selected region in descending order based on the first column selected.

Graph

  This button calls the graph guru to create a graph.

Insert Object

  This button will insert a component object into the current worksheet. Components are the way that the GNOME project has chosen to enable certain programs to use others within themselves. Gnumeric is able to use the Guppi plotting program and the Dia diagramming program in this way.

Insert Shaped Component

  This button allows user to insert a component into Gnumeric that is not a simple rectangle but may have an arbitrary shape. This functionality is currently not used but provided for future needs.

Zoom

  The zoom button allows the users to tradeoff the extent of the worksheet which is visible against the size of the visible text and cells.

# The Format Toolbar

The Format Toolbar ...

## The Format Toolbar

The Format Toolbar.

Font Chooser.

  The user can change the font of a selection either by typing the name of a new font in the text area of this box or by clicking on the little arrow to the right of the text area. This will cause a menu to appear from which a font can be chosen.

Font size

  The user can change the font size of a selection by typing the number of a different font size or by clicking on the little arrow to the right of the entry box and selecting the perferred size.

Bold

  Change the style of the current cell to be bold, or un bold it if it is already bold.

Italic

  Change the style of the current cell to be italicized .

Underline

  Change the style of the current cell to be underlined.

Left justify..

  Justify the contents of the cell to the left of the cell.

Center

  Center the content of the cells.

Right Justify

  Justify the content of the cells to the right side of the cells

Right Justify

  Justify the content of the cells to the right side of the cells

Left justify.

  Justify the contents of the cell to the left of the cell.

Center

  Center the content of the cells.

Money

  Sets the format of the selected cells to be monetary.

Percentage

  Sets the format of the selected cells to be a percentage.

Thousands separator

  Sets the format of the selected cells to use thousands separator.

Increase the displayed precision.

  Increases the number of decimals shown in the currently selected cell.

Decrease the displayed precision.

  Decreases the number of decimals in the currently selected cell.

Decrease the displayed indentation.

  This button decreases the indentation of selected elements.

Increase the displayed indentation.

  This button increases the indentation of selected elements.

Change the display borders.

  This button and drop down menu can be used to set the borders of all the cells in the selection.

Set the Background Colour.

  This button and drop down menu can be used to set the back ground colour.

Set the Text Colour

  This can be used to change the colour of the text.

# The Object Toolbar

## The Object Toolbar

The Object Toolbar.

Insert a label.

  This button allows the user to insert a text label into a worksheet.

Insert a Frame.

  This button allows a user to insert a frame into a worksheet.

Insert a Checkbox.

  This button allows a user to insert a check box.

Insert a List.

  This button allows a user to insert a list.

Insert a Combo Box

  This allows a user to insert a Combo Box.

Line

  Draw a line on the worksheet.

Arrow

  Draw a line with a arrow at one end. A pointer.

Box

  Draw a box onto the worksheet.

Ellipse

  Draw an ellipse or a circle on the worksheet.