# Using the Toolbars

This chapter explains Opera's toolbars.

## Main bar

The Main bar helps you to do essential browsing:

- Go back and forth in page history
- Go to the most likely next page (Fast Forward)
- Get the newest version of a page (Reload)
- Go to your home page
- Show the Hotlist
- Automatically log in to sites using the Wand
- Open new pages for browsing
- Open and save files on your computer
- Print Web pages
- Find text in a page
- Arrange your open pages

Tip: Right-click the Main bar to customize it, or use drag and drop to rearrange buttons.

## Status bar

The Status bar shows useful information when you point your mouse to different items, both in Web pages and in the user interface.

Tip: Right-click the Status bar to customize it, or drag the status field to another toolbar to save space.

## Personal bar

Put your favorite bookmarks, bookmark folders, and Web searches on the Personal bar so you can use them quickly and at any time.

This is how you place items on the Personal bar:

Operation | How to do it
--- | ---
Bookmark link and show on Personal bar | Drag link from Web page to Personal bar
Show bookmark folder on Personal bar | Drag bookmark folder from Hotlist to Personal bar
Add search field to Personal bar | Enable searches from the View menu.

Tip: Right-click an item on the Personal bar for multiple choices.

These are some of the things you can do with the Personal bar:

Operation | How to do it
--- | ---
Open link on Personal bar | Click the link
Open link in new page | Hold `Shift` and click link
Open link in background | Hold `Ctrl` and `Shift`, then click link
Open all bookmarks in a folder | Click folder and select "Open all folder items", or hold `Ctrl` while dragging folder to Opera's workspace
Search on the Web | Enter text in search field and press `Enter`

Tip: Right-click the Personal bar to customize it.

## Page bar

The Page bar lets you access your open Web pages as tabs. With a few pages open, try this:

Operation | How to do it
--- | ---
Toggle between pages | Click corresponding tabs
Browse in new page | Double-click empty area right of rightmost tab

Close page

- Method 1: Hold `Shift` and click tab
- Method 2: Middle-click tab

Bookmark page | Drag tab to Hotlist

Tip: Right-click the Page bar to customize it or manage pages.

## Address bar

The Address bar consists of the following items (left to right):

Item | Explanation
--- | ---
Padlock icon | Indication of the current security level
Image button | Toggle images in the page
Preview button | Preview printed version of page
Style button | Customize page style
Page icon | Drag to e.g. Hotlist to create bookmark
Address field | Enter Web addresses
Address drop-down button | Access recently typed addresses
The Go button | Go to the address typed in
Search field | Search the Web directly
Search drop-down button | Select search engine
Search button | Execute search
Zoom field | Zoom in to enlarge text and images, or zoom out to get an overview
Zoom drop-down button | Choose a preselected zoom

If you have copied a Web address, you can right-click Opera's address field and select "Paste and go".

Tip: Right-click the Address bar to customize it.

## Navigation bar

Some sites provide a navigation bar to make site navigation easier. Site navigation is also possible through the Navigation menu.

Button | What it does
--- | ---
Home | Go to current site's start page
Index | Go to index page
Contents | Go to contents page
Search | Search current site
Glossary | Go to glossary page
Help | Get help using active page
First | Go to first page in a series of related pages
Previous | Go to previous page in a series of related pages
Next | Go to next page in a series of related pages
Last | Go to last page in a series of related pages
Up | Go to page one level above active page
Copyright | Get information about current site
Author | Get information about page author

Tip: Right-click the Navigation bar to customize it.

## Progress bar

When a page loads, the Progress bar displays the following information (left to right):

1. How much of the document is transferred
2. Number of images transferred
3. Total data transferred
4. Average transfer speed
5. Time elapsed since loading started
6. Textual status of page loading

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