This document provides instructions for customizing toolbars in IBM SPSS Statistics. It explains that toolbars can be customized by adding or removing existing tools and creating custom tools to automate frequent tasks like running reports. The instructions describe how to access the toolbar customization options from the View menu, select tools to add or remove, and create custom tools by specifying a label and syntax command or script to execute. Contact information is provided for technical support.

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Tech Tips – Customising Toolbars
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February 2023
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• Did you know that you can easily customise your toolbar in IBM SPSS Statistics?
• IBM SPSS permits you to customise exiting toolbars and create new toolbars to suit your needs.
• Toolbars can contain any of the available tools, including tools for all menu actions
• They can also contain custom tools that launch other applications, run syntax files of script files.
• For example, if I use a particular menu item a great deal, or I run a regular report, I can create a
button on the toolbar to automate this work.
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• From the menus chose View > Toolbars > Customize
• In the Show Toolbars dialog box select the toolbar you want to customise and click Edit, or click
New to create a new toolbar/
• For new toolbars, enter a name for the toolbar, select the widows in which you want the toolbar
to appear, and click Edit.

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• Select an item in the Categories list to display available tools in that category.
• Drag and drop the tools you want onto the Customising Toolbar displayed in the
dialog box.
• To remove a tool from the toolbar, drag it anywhere off the toolbar displayed in the Edit
Toolbar dialog box.

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• To create a custom tool to open a file, to run a command syntax file, or to run a script:
• Click Edit the Show Toolbar box.
• Click User-Defined.
• Select New Tool.

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• Provide a label such as ‘Weekly Report’
• Select Syntax and the syntax file needed to run the report. .
• Select file and click Continue. Drag Weekly Report to the Data Editor area. Click Continue and
Click OK. The new Weekly Report tool will appear on the toolbar.

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