QUICK LAUNCH LANDINGS

In our last tip, we showed you how to change your Quick Launch toolbar into a floating palette: Click the vertical bar on its left edge, drag the entire toolbar bar to a new location on your desktop, and let go. From there, you can size or move the palette, just as you would any other window.

Have you decided that you like the toolbar better? In two quick steps, you can put it right back where it started (we're assuming to the right of the Start button, with your Taskbar across the bottom of the screen). Click the palette's title bar and drag it downward until it expands to the full width of the screen (across the top of the Taskbar). Let go, and the toolbar jumps down to its original form, but on the right side of the Taskbar.

Now just move the toolbar next to the Start button. Hold your mouse pointer over the bar's left edge, and when it changes to a double-pointed arrow, click and drag the bar to the left. When your mouse pointer is just to the right of the Start button, the Quick Launch toolbar will jump into place there. Let go of the mouse.

(Tip: You'll need to resize the other toolbars on the Taskbar to get everything back in perfect order. As a quick review, hold your mouse pointer over a toolbar's left edge, then click and drag in either direction.)

last updated: Monday, 24. May 1999 09:47:13 AM -0500