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(Distributed) The (Distributed) Skin Settings dialog box lets you customize the appearance of the station using (Distributed) Stage Tools and (Distributed) Tool Settings. To customize the appearance of the selected tool, click Edit…, and in the dialog box that opens click (Distributed) Edit Skin…. (Standalone) The (Standalone) Skin Settings dialog box lets you customize the appearance of the Operator Station using batch type tools. To open the dialog box, click the (Standalone) Edit Skin… button in the (Standalone) Batch Type Tool Settings dialog box.

Toolbars tab

On the Toolbars tab, you can configure the set of toolbars for a selected tool. Each tool’s list of toolbars includes four required toolbars: Tasks, Standard, View, and Navigation. You can add a custom toolbar to the list.
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Open the toolbar dialog box

Click Add….
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Name the toolbar

In the dialog box that opens, specify the toolbar name and click OK. The new toolbar appears in the list.
To rename a custom toolbar, click Rename….

Commands tab

On the Commands tab, you can rearrange the menu and toolbar commands. Select Menu or Toolbar, and from the corresponding drop-down list choose a menu item or a toolbar to rearrange. The Commands group contains the list of commands available for the selected menu item or toolbar. For each command, the following options are available. The Tooltip field contains the tooltip text for a command and a keyboard shortcut, if a shortcut is specified for the command. When adding a user command, you can enter the tooltip text for it. The maximum length of the tooltip text is 80 characters. Keyboard shortcuts for user commands are configured on the Keyboard Shortcuts tab of the Tools → Options… menu. When adding or editing toolbar commands, you can select whether to display the command as text or as an icon. If the Use icon option is selected, click Browse (bmp, 24x24)… to load an image to use as the command icon. The image must be in .bmp format and 24x24px in size. For commands of the Tasks toolbar, the image size must be 32x32px. You can manage the visibility of custom toolbars from the menu by adding a menu item that shows or hides them.
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Open the command for editing

On the Commands tab, select a menu item and click Edit….
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Select the View category

In the Edit Command dialog box, select View from the Categories list.
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Add the Custom Toolbars command

In the Commands list, select Custom Toolbars. The Custom Toolbars item, with the list of all custom toolbars, is added to the station menu.
The Custom Toolbars command can be added only to the menu, not to a toolbar.