The Tools - Customize - Options allow you to adjust the look and feel of the MindManager interface to your liking.
The Personalized Menus options control what the pull-down menus display
Always show full menu shows all the commands each time you use the menu.
Show full menus after a short delay shows only the most recently-used commands first, and then shows all the commands after a pause. The commands that are displayed depends on the usage data recorded by MindManager as you use the program. This setting can help you more quickly find the commands you use most often.
Click Reset my usage data to restore the default set of visible commands.
Other options control:
Whether to use large icons on the buttons, what kind of screen tips are displayed for commands and how pull-down menus appear.
To display or hide toolbars, right-click on any toolbar and check which toolbars you want to see on the screen. On initial display toolbars are docked at the window's top or bottom. To float any toolbar, drag it by its handle.
Click Customize to use the toolbar customization mode. You can add or remove commands from the toolbars in this mode and control the look of the buttons - whether they display as text or images and the image used.
Note: you cannot customize the Notes window toolbar.
To add buttons to the toolbars:
Right-click on any toolbar and select Customize or select Tools - Customize. Click on the Commands tab.
The tab displays a list of command categories on the left with their associated buttons on the right. You may notice that there is a category for each of the default toolbars, but you can add any button to any toolbar.
Click on a category name. Drag any button from the Commands area to any toolbar. For menu items with submenus you can choose to add either the main menu command (the submenu items appear in a pull-down) or any of the individual sub-menu commands.
When you are done, click on OK.
Hint: to remove a button, drag it off the toolbar or right-click and select Delete while in Customize mode, .
To reorganize buttons:
With the Tools – Customize dialog open, you can click and drag any toolbar button to adjust its position. You can increase the space between the buttons or change their order on the toolbar in this way.
To create a separator between two toolbar buttons simply right-click and select Start Group.
To create a new toolbar:
Drag and drop a button from the Customize - Toolbars dialog into a blank space in the toolbar area.
To return the Toolbars to their original configuration:
Do one of the following:
Click Tools - Customize - Toolbars and click the Reset button.
Select Tools – Options – Save Under Application Workspace select Reset.
You will be warned that you are about to reset all the toolbar and window settings. Answer yes. When you close and restart MindManager the toolbars and menus will be shown in their default state.
While in customize mode you can change the appearance of individual toolbar buttons. In this mode, right-click on a button and choose from the following options:
Reset to Default - resets the button to its default appearance
Copy Button Image - copies the button image to the clipboard so you can paste it into another program. This is convenient for creating custom button images from an existing button image.
Delete - Removes the button from the toolbar.
Button appearance - Allows you to select a custom button image, enter a custom description and / or button text. You can choose to display only the image, only the command text, or both. (These last 3 options can be selected directly from the menu as well.)
Start Group - Adds a separator character before this button.
Note: The AutoRecover feature saves your custom interface layout settings at regular intervals, based on the setting in the Tools-Options - Save tab..