[Solved+Issue] How to disable autohide toolbar feature

[atulkakrana]

I am new to OpenOffice.....so pls help me out of the situation.......Whenever i click in a table or near bullet/numbering in a document....Their respective toolbars comes in a new row automatically....and whn cursor moves away from table/bullet/numbering toolbar hides.....I want to disable this feature....as my PC is slow..so this features causes problem....OR if this feature cant be disabled thn how do i make these toolbars permanent in a ROW....
Any suggestions

[acknak]

You can't disable the behavior, but you can dock the toolbars. Click on the title area of the toolbar and drag it toward any side of the main window until you see a thick black outline appear. Release the mouse button. The toolbar will be fixed at that location when it appears.

For more information and tips on configuring these, see [Tutorial] Turning off Context-Sensitive Toolbars Sorry, that tutorial is no longer available.

[atulkakrana]

THanks dude .......i docked thm on side....but still the autohide feature works....nw from sides.....can i dock thm permanently on sides....

[acknak]

Sorry, I wasn't real clear before.

For the context sensitive (CS) toolbars, your choices are:

• Accept the default setting -- toolbars come and go as needed
• Turn the toolbar off -- it will never be displayed
• Dock the toolbar -- it will come and go as needed but always in the same place, out of the way
• Make a new custom toolbar -- add the buttons from the CS toolbar; the new one is not CS

Note that there is no choice to turn off the context sensitivity (the "come and go as needed" behavior).

You can also have a look at these threads:
Re: Disable automatic toolbar show-up
[Issue] Toolbars keep re-appearing even if turned off
[Issue] Lock toolbars

[dalesc]

In my experience, there are two ways to reduce the effect of the toolbars appearing and disappearing:
1. Have them docked at the bottom of the window - there is less redrawing when their come and go
2. Have them floating inside the document area. There's very little redrawing required here but they can get in the way if you have small monitor. You can drag the sides to change the shape from a toolbar to a toolbox if it helps keep them out of the way.

[toml]

To get around the OPs problem I created a new empty toolbar and docked on the side. This functions as a place holder to keep the side toolbar open. Then when I put the context-sensitive toolbar there, there's not much to redraw as it pops in and out of existence and the document text doesn't shift around.

(btw, I didn't do this for speed, but the constant shifting of the text as I moved in and out of bulleted and numbered lists was driving me crazy.)

[nztebs]

Thanks for this! I had been finding this really irritating, so appreciate the fix.

I have blogged User 101 style instructions for those who'd like some step by steps - http://nztebs.blogspot.com/2009/08/mini ... ntext.html

[sergio]

Thank you so much!!!! You have no idea how irritating it was to have the display jump up and own like that. I hope that OOo will change this

[Elusis]

How do you "turn the toolbar off so it will never be displayed"? I cannot seem to find this preference anywhere.

[acknak]

While the toolbar is displayed, do View > Toolbars and un-check the toolbar. The toolbar will not be displayed after that.

Note: not all toolbars can be turned off.