Windows users have the ability to hide the Taskbar, but the menu bar in OS X is a constant presence. This isn’t necessarily bad because the menu bar doesn’t really take up that much room. If you want to hide it, however, you now can.
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The menu bar is quite versatile. You can add new controls to it, access further options using the “Option” key, and even move menu bar icons around by holding down the “Command” key.
It’s important to note that if you want to take advantage of this feature, you must first upgrade your OS X installation to 10.11 El Capitan, which adds quite a few great new features. One of these new features, which hasn’t gotten a lot of coverage is the ability to hide and show the menu bar, a mainstay not just in OS X, but Macs in general dating back to the earliest versions of the Mac System.
Mac Excel Toolbar Missing
On your Mac, click the Finder icon in the Dock to open a Finder window. Do any of the following: Hide or show the sidebar: Choose View Hide Sidebar or View Show Sidebar. (If Show Sidebar is dimmed, choose View Show Toolbar.) Resize the sidebar: Drag the right side of the divider bar to the right or left. Microsoft Excel for Mac; In this article Symptoms. One or more toolbars are missing and cannot be added in Microsoft Excel for Mac. There are two possible causes of this behavior: The oval button in the upper-right corner of the document was clicked. This button 'toggles' the display of toolbars on and off. There is an issue with Excel preferences.
The thing is though, the menu bar always remains no matter what you’re doing on your Mac (unless you’re viewing a video full screen or playing a game). While it doesn’t necessarily take up a ton of vertical space, it would be nice if you could have it all, which you now can.
Interwrite software download. In order to automatically hide and show the menu bar, you will first need to open your Mac’s System Preferences and click on the “General” settings. Not a whole lot has changed since Yosemite, but there is the addition of a new feature right below the dark menu bar option.
This new option “Automatically hide and show the menu bar”, when checked, will do just as it says.
So, check the box and you’ll see that the menu bar immediately retreats into the top of the screen.
In order to get it back, you simply need to move your pointer to the top screen edge and it will magically reappear. Move you mouse pointer away and the menu bar will again disappear. If you don’t like this feature, then simply go back into the General settings and uncheck the box.
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Mac Toolbar Missing
Make sure that you do not run Firefox in Full Screen mode (press F11 or Fn + F11 to toggle; Mac: Command+Shift+F).
When you are in Full Screen mode, hover the mouse to the top of the screen to make the Navigation Toolbar and Tab bar appear.You can use one of these to leave Full Screen mode:
- press the F11 key
- click the Maximize button at the right end of the Tab bar
- click the Full Screen button in the '3-bar' Firefox menu button drop-down list
- right-click empty space on a toolbar and click 'Exit Full Screen Mode'
You can use one of these to set which toolbars to show.
Excel 2008 Mac Toolbar Missing
- '3-bar' menu button > Customize > Show/Hide Toolbars
- View > Toolbars
You can tap the Alt key or press F10 to show the Menu Bar - Right-click empty toolbar area