User Manual

Using the Tool Palette
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Using the Tool Palette
The Tool palette provides additional buttons for editing and navigating with your Avid editing
application. The Tool palette buttons can appear with or without labels, and you can “tear off”
the Tool palette to display it in another screen location.
You can also map other functions and buttons to the Tool palette for easy access. See “The
Command Palette” on page 110.
To use the Tool palette:
1. Click the Fast Menu button in the Composer window or on a pop-up monitor.
The Tool palette opens.
2. Click a button in the Tool palette.
Your Avid editing application performs the function associated with the button.
To leave the Tool palette open and move it to another location:
1. Click the Fast Menu button in the Composer window or on a pop-up monitor.
2. Click the location where you want the Tool palette to be displayed.
3. (Option) If a subset of the buttons appears in the Tool palette, click the lower right corner
and drag it to the right and down to reveal the full Tool palette.
To view the names of the buttons in the Tool palette:
t Move the pointer over a button.
The name of the button appears in a ToolTip box.
To display labels on the Tool palette buttons:
1. In the Project window, double-click the Interface Setting.
The Interface Setting dialog box appears.
2. Select Show Labels in Tool Palette.
3. Click OK.
Labels appear on the buttons under the icons.