MAC TOOLBAR ICONS CHANGE HOW TO

(First you click once on the app, then you let go, then you hold the Command key, then you drag to the Toolbar.) The trick: hold the Command key while you drag. (Go ahead and try! The app just bounces back to where it came from).

YouвЂ™d think that youвЂ™d just drag an appвЂ™s icon to the Toolbar, same as with the buttons, but it doesnвЂ™t work that way. (I also sometimes want to open a PNG or JPEG with Pixelmator rather than the default Preview app, and having Pixelmator in the Toolbar means I can open an image in Pixelmator by dragging the image to the Pixelmator icon right there in the Toolbar! ItвЂ™s very handy.) I want to put Pixelmator into the Toolbar because I use it a lot and I want super-quick access to it. Get there by choosing вЂњApplicationsвЂќ from the Go menu, or by typing Command-Shift-A, or by clicking вЂњApplicationsвЂќ in the sidebar on the left. Customizing the FinderвЂ™s Toolbar by adding an app to the ToolbarДЇirst, go to the Applications folder. So letвЂ™s add an app to the FinderвЂ™s Toolbar. There are other benefits too (see below).

Of course you could put the app in the Dock, but sometimes the pointer is pretty far away from the Dock, and weвЂ™re trying to save time here, remember? Plus, the Dock gets cluttered when you put too many things in it, and that makes it harder to find things, which uses up more time. Maybe youвЂ™d like one-click access to a favorite app, right in the Toolbar. From now on, every Finder window will have your new, customized Toolbar. If you really mess up and you just want things back the way they were, look to the bottom of the window, where you can grab the default set of buttons and drag it into the Toolbar, as if youвЂ™d never made any changes. If you donвЂ™t see a Toolbar, go to the View menu and choose вЂњShow Toolbar.вЂќДЇinder window Toolbar with Delete button moved to the left HereвЂ™s a typical Finder window with the standard Finder Toolbar (this is macOS Catalina): The Toolbar is the strip across the top of every Finder window. Customizing the FinderвЂ™s Toolbar by showing button labels

This article shows you how to save time and make working on a Mac easier by customizing the FinderвЂ™s Toolbar. ItвЂ™s pretty basic, and not terribly difficult, but think about it: if you have to dig through a couple of folders to find the items you want, and if you have to move the mouse over to the Dock and take a moment looking for a particular app, some number of seconds are taken up, and those seconds add up. You can customize the Toolbars in Mail, Safari, Numbers, Pages, and many more apps using the same techniques.Д®very Mac user spends a lot of time working with files.

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MAC TOOLBAR ICONS CHANGE HOW TO

Mac toolbar icons change