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the toolbar
when you start Read&Write Gold
this toolbar will appear
you can move it anywhere around the screen
if you wish you can dock the toolbar to either side of the screen
to unock the toolbar again simply click on this icon
you can also dock t the toolbar to the top of the screen
you'll see if you click here
then a menu appears
there's an option to change the current toolbar
there's a choice of six different toolbars
to change to another toolbar click on it
this is the all features toolbar
where all the features are accessible from the toolbar
the reading features toolbar has the main features you will use when reading
writing features toolbar
has the features you will need for writing
the research features toolbar
has the features you can use when doing research
the my features toolbar
has been designed to be personalize to fit your specific needs
and this is the study skills features toolbar which has tools to help you when
studying
if you simply click on the Texthelp icon it will move to the next toolbar
this will show which toolbar you have on screen
you can change the appearance of the toolbars
to do this
select general options
you can choose to switch on or off any of the features in the current toolbar
this way you can make your own toolbar that includes the features you use
regularly
you can change the style of the toolbar icons by changing the icon set
from the clear style
to clear style color
professional
or fun
in addition you can change the size of the toolbar and have text to explain
what the icons are
currently it is set at large icons without text
but you can change it to small icons without text
small icons with text
or large icons with text
you can change the color of the toolbar here
you can open any application
snd the toolbar will be there ready to be used when needed
understanding the toolbar
icons
there are various icons on the toolbars
you'll not be able to see all the icons available in Read&Write Gold
unless you have the all features toolbar selected
if there isn't enough room on the screen for all the icons
click here to see the rest
by clicking on the icon you'll be able to access that particular feature
this
is spellcheck
prediction
dictionary
picture dictionary
and word wizard
these three icons are for checking for words that sound the same
or words that are easily confused
next is the verb checker
followed by the calculator
the next five icons control the text to speech
rewind
play
pause
forward
and stop
next is the screenshot reader
then the speech maker
followed by the daisy reader
and pronunciation tutor
this is the scanned icon
which is used to scanned documents
thrn the fact finder
fact folder
and fact mapper
followed by the screen masking and speech input
next is the translator
and PDF Aloud
these four icons are color highlighters
there's yellow
blue
green
and pink
followed by clear highlights then collects highlights
this is the vocabulary icon
next is the word cloud and voice note
to access the help
click on this icon
and finally the Texthelp icon
beside many of the icons you'll notice an arrow
by clicking on this arrow you will see the drop down menu for eeach feature
from these menus you can select various options to adapt the feature