Toolbars
This section provides an overview of the toolbars available in Collabora Office Writer. This overview describes the default toolbar configuration for Collabora Office.
Drawing Bar
The Drawing bar contains frequently used editing tools. Click the arrow next to an icon to open a toolbar that contains additional commands.
Frame Bar
When a frame is selected, the Frame Bar provides the most important functions for formatting and positioning the frame.
OLE-Object Bar
The OLE-Object bar appears when objects are selected, and contains the most important functions for formatting and positioning objects.
Table Bar
The Table Bar contains functions you need when working with tables. It appears when you move the cursor into a table.
Drawing Object Properties Bar
You can see the Drawing Object Properties bar in Writer and Calc. Select the menu View - Toolbars - Drawing Object Properties. The controls are enabled when a drawing object is selected. You see some different icons by default, whether the current document is a text document or a spreadsheet.
Bullets and Numbering Bar
The Bullets and Numbering bar contains functions to modify the structure of numbered paragraphs, including changing the order of paragraphs and defining different paragraph levels.
Text Object Bar
Contains formatting commands for text that is contained in a draw object. The Text Object bar appears when you double-click inside a draw object.
Status Bar
The Status Bar contains information about the current document and offers various buttons with special functions.
Print Preview
The Print Preview Bar appears when you view the current document in the print preview mode.
Rulers
Rulers display the dimensions of the page, and the position of tabs, indents, borders and columns. You can modify all of these on the rulers using the mouse.
Formula Bar
The Formula Bar allows you to create and insert calculations into a text document. To activate the Formula Bar, press F2.
Insert
The toolbar contains various functions for inserting frames, graphics, tables, and other objects.
Classification Bar
The Classification bar contains tools to help secure document handling.
The Classification toolbar contains listboxes to help in selecting the security of the document, according to the BAF category policy and BAILS levels. Collabora Office will add custom fields in the document properties (File - Properties, Custom Properties tab) to store the classification policy as document metadata.
Go to menu View - Toolbars and select Classification
Mail Merge Toolbar
The Mail Merge Toolbar contains commands for the final steps of the mail merge process.