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Mathcad Toolbars

Features of the Worksheet Window

Before you learn more about Mathcad's features, take a look at the main
Worksheet window. You are currently in the Resources window, so make
sure you are looking at the window with the toolbar pictured below. If you
can't see it, try moving this window to the right, so both windows line up
next to each other.

The Main Menu

This gateway to math, graphics, and symbolic functions provides the
commands that handle the details of editing and managing your worksheets.
Click on each of the menus to see the array of computational and formatting
functionality available to you.
The Math Toolbar
The Math toolbar, whose buttons bring up toolbars of
math operators, is docked just under the main menu.
You can also undock it and drag it around the screen.
Choose Toolbars > Math from the View menu if you
don't see it. If you let your mouse hover over each of
the buttons on the bar in turn, you see a tooltip telling
you what toolbar each button brings up.
Calculator toolbar Boolean toolbar

Graph toolbar Programming toolbar

Vector and Matrix toolbar Greek Symbol toolbar

Evaluation toolbar Symbolic Keyword toolbar

Calculus toolbar

Click on one of these buttons in the Math toolbar to bring up the associated
operator toolbar. You can then use the operator toolbar to insert math
symbols into your worksheet. Hover over any button for a tooltip giving a
brief description and keystrokes.
The Modifier button on the Symbolic toolbar opens up an additional
toolbar of keywords.

The Standard Toolbar

Above is another tear-away button bar that provides shortcuts for many
common tasks, from spell-checking to entering built-in functions and units.
Hover over each button to see tooltips with a brief description. You can
customize the Standard toolbar by right-clicking on it and choosing
"Customize," then picking additional buttons to add or subtract.

The Formatting Toolbar

The Formatting toolbar helps you easily format your text and math. If the
Formatting toolbar is not showing, select Toolbars > Formatting from the
View menu.
The Resources Toolbar

The Resources toolbar opens up Tutorials, QuickSheets, Reference

Tables, and any Extension Packs or E-books you have installed.

The Controls Toolbar

The Controls toolbar can be used to insert Mathsoft custom controls -

such as check boxes, radio buttons, sliders, and text boxes - into your
worksheets. See sample files under Using Mathcad with Other
Applications in QuickSheets. Details about using the controls are in the
Developer's Reference under the Help menu.

Finally, the status line

at the bottom of the Mathcad window gives you status alerts, keyboard
shortcuts, and other helpful information. It also lists the calculation status of
your worksheet - "AUTO" means that the worksheet is in automatic
mode, which means Mathcad automatically recalculates math expressions if
you make changes to your worksheet. You can turn off Automatic
Calculation from Calculate in the Tools menu.

The status line also shows the state of the Caps Lock and Num Lock keys
as well as the page number of the current window you are working in.
The Resources Window Navigational Controls

These buttons let you browse among the sections of the Resources windows
or Mathcad E-books. This tutorial you are reading is in fact a Mathcad
E-book! Just let your mouse hover over each of the navigational buttons at the
top of this window to see a tooltip explaining what each one does.

The Address Toolbar

The Address toolbar in the Resources window can be opened

through this button.
From the Address toolbar, you can browse to files on the Web and
your computer, bookmark files, and reload files.
Opening, Closing, and Moving "Floating" Toolbars

All of toolbars in the main Worksheet window can be opened, closed, and
moved around your workspace.

To open the Calculator toolbar, select Toolbars > Calculator from the View
menu.

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To move the Calculator toolbar, move your cursor to the title bar at the top of
the toolbar. Then, click on it and drag.

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To close a toolbar, click the "X" in the upper right corner of the toolbar:

or uncheck a toolbar under Toolbars in the View menu.

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To resize a toolbar, you can drag on its borders to reshape it.

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