Expression Web 4 provides eleven toolbars on the View > Toolbars menu, organized around particular activities, such as editing in Code view, and working with styles or tables. The default toolbars are sensible unless you regularly use only a few buttons from each toolbar; in that case, the default toolbars may clutter and waste valuable space in the application, especially when your favorite buttons are on three or more different toolbars. To the rescue: the free Custom Toolbars add-in for Expression Web 4 lets you create one or more toolbars to organize your favorite buttons and commands in Expression Web 4.

Install the Custom Toolbars add-in for Expression Web 4

1. If Expression Web 4 is open, quit the application.
2. Download the Custom Toolbars add-in from the Expression Gallery at http://gallery.expression.microsoft.com/en-us/CustomToolbars.
3. Double-click the CustomToolbars.msi file, and follow the onscreen instructions to install the add-in.
   
   
4. Start Expression Web 4.
5. The Favorites toolbar, labeled Customize Toolbars, appears below any open toolbars at the top of Expression Web 4. Select View > Toolbars > Favorites to close this toolbar. This “Favorites” toolbar that appears is known to be buggy if you try to customize it so we recommend closing it and creating a new custom toolbar from scratch, as demonstrated in the following steps.
   
     

Create a custom toolbar

1. In Expression Web 4, on the Tools menu, click Customize Toolbars.
   
    
2. Click New, enter a name for your custom toolbar, and click OK.
   
   
3. In the Customize dialog box, in the column on the left, select the items you want to add to your toolbar, and click Add. To change the order of items in your toolbar, in the column on the right, select an item you want to move, and then click the up or down arrows. When you are done editing your toolbar, click OK.
   
   

Your custom toolbar now appears below other toolbars open in Expression Web 4, with all of your favorite buttons at the ready! To show or hide your toolbar, select the toolbar’s name from the View > Toolbars menu.

Expression Web team

This week we bring two more browsers to our online service Beta.

Internet Explorer 9 Beta	Safari 5 for Mac

If you’ve already signed up for the online service you will receive notification of these new browsers the next time you launch SuperPreview.  You can then choose them from the browser selection screen and begin previewing your sites with the new browsers.

If you haven’t signed up yet, you can do it right inside SuperPreview.  Just click the Sign up button on the toolbar.

Access to the SuperPreview online service Beta is available to users who’ve purchased or upgraded to Expression Web 4.  If you still haven’t upgraded from Expression Web 3, version 4 is a free upgrade with many improvements.

Alex Moskwa
Program Manager
Expression SuperPreview Team