Customizing the Icon Menu

Introduction

Synapse provides you with the ability to customize icon menus and do any of the following:

Create a new icon menu page and then add the icons that are most useful to you.
Copy an existing icon menu page, which can then be renamed.
Delete an icon menu page.
Rename an existing icon menu page.
Change the location of an icon in an existing icon menu page.
Replace an icon with a different icon from an existing icon menu page or from the List context menu.

Note:

If you change any of the icons in an icon menu, you cannot automatically undo your changes afterward. Use screen capture software to preserve a record of the default icon menu appearance before making changes.
Hover over an icon to see the keyboard shortcut.

Right-click the image to display a context menu..
Select Icon Menu.
Right-click a pre-existing icon or a blank icon space for editing.
A yellow border around the icon indicates that you can edit this icon.
The List menu displays.
Select an option in the List menu to replace the icon you chose to edit.
To access the icon submenu options:

Click the drop-down Icon Menu list to view the available modalities.
Right-click a modality to display the Icon submenu options for editing. The submenu provides a list of options for editing.
Do any of the following:

If you want to do this...	Choose this option...
Create a new page that does not contain any icons.	Select Create New. Synapse creates a new icon menu page that you can customize with icons you select.
Make a copy of an existing icon menu page.	Select Make a Copy. Synapse creates a copy of the icon menu page and adds it to the list as New_Copy. Complete the steps in the next row to rename the icon menu page.
Rename an existing icon menu page.	Select Rename. In the Rename dialog box, enter the new name. Click OK.
Move an icon menu page up in the drop-down list.	Select Move Up.
Move an icon menu page down in the drop-down list.	Select Move Down.
Delete an icon menu page.	Select Delete. In the Delete dialog box, click Yes to permanently delete an icon menu page.

To exit editing mode and close the icon menus, do one of the following:
- Click outside the icon menu or submenu.
- Press the ESC key on your keyboard.

Icon menu customizations persist on a per user basis.

The last icon menu page selected for a modality persists. To access the other icon menu pages, complete one of the following steps:

Use your mouse to scroll backward to the next icon menu page or scroll forward to the previous icon menu page.
Use the drop-down list option to change to a different icon menu page: