Using the Yahoo! Toolbar With Internet Explorer
| Adding and Removing Buttons | Making Your Own Button | Changing the Toolbar’s Appearance | Using a Toolbar Button | Displaying and Hiding the Toolbar |
Making Your Own Toolbar Button
Toolbar buttons provide useful shortcuts for actions you perform frequently and sites you visit often. If you can’t find the button you want from our extensive gallery, make your own.
Here’s How
On the Toolbar, click the Settings button (
), then select Add/Edit Buttons.The Yahoo! Toolbar button page opens where you make your own button.
Click the Make a Button tab.
Type the web address (URL) in the first box.
Type the button’s title in the second box.
We’ll check the URL you typed to see if the site offers a graphic icon. If not or you don’t care for what is offered, you can choose one from the Icon Gallery at the bottom of the tab.
When you’ve entered all of the information, click the Save button.
The new button appears at the top of the list under Your Toolbar Buttons on the right.
Click the Save Changes button, then click the Finish button.
Your new button appears in your Toolbar. When you click the button, the browser displays the Web page you specified when making the button.
What’s Next
Create as many toolbar buttons as you like. You can arrange them and remove them just as you do with any of our buttons. If you remove a button that you made, you’ll have to make it again before adding it back to the Toolbar.
Are you missing buttons you made for an earlier version of the Yahoo! Toolbar? You can add them to your new toolbar by clicking the Settings button, then selecting Add old buttons from a Yahoo! ID. This takes you to the Import Toolbar Buttons page, which displays all of the toolbar buttons saved under your Yahoo! ID. Select the ones you made and click Add Buttons to add them to your new Toolbar.
Note: If you’ve used an older version of the Yahoo! Toolbar, you know that we saved your customizations with your Yahoo! ID. This no longer occurs with the new Toolbar. Instead, we save your changes to the computer on which you customize the Toolbar. This way, you can see and use your Toolbar every time you open Internet Explorer on your computer and without signing in to Yahoo!. Of course, if you’re using Internet Explorer on a different computer, you may see a different Yahoo! Toolbar.
Words to Know
- Toolbar: a row of buttons across the top of the browser window that you can click to perform various tasks.
- URL: Universal Resource Locator; specifies the location of a file or web page, such as http://my.yahoo.com.