Menu Toolbar

This toolbar contains the "traditional" drop-down menus, as well as controls for modifying the appearance of the Lister.

On the left-hand side of this toolbar are several drop-down menus:

• File: The File menu contains commands to open a new Lister, close the current one and exit the program. It also displays the context menu for the currently selected files.
• Edit: The Edit menu contains mainly clipboard related commands. As well as the traditional Cut / Copy / Paste commands, there are also commands for copying the names of selected files or the current path to the clipboard in various formats. The Calculate Folder Sizes command calculates and displays the total sizes of selected folders. There are also commands for selecting files and folders (select all, select by pattern, etc).
• Tools: This menu contains commands for various tool or utility functions, including:
  • Find Files, Synchronize and Find Duplicate Files
  • Join Files lets you join two or more files together, and Split File lets you split a single file into multiple parts.
  • Print / Export Folder Listing lets you print the current folder either to the printer, a file or the clipboard, in various formats (including .CSV for import into a spreadsheet)
  • Image conversion and sharing tools
• Settings: This menu contains commands to access the Opus configuration including Preferences, Customize (create your own toolbars or hotkeys) and File Types (change what happens when you double-click or right-click on specific types of files).

On the right-hand side are the following menus and commands:

•  View Mode: This is a combined button and menu. The button part provides a quick, convenient way to toggle between the Details and Thumbnails view modes. The menu part lets you switch between the various view modes in the current file display. It also contains sub-menus that let you modify the sorting and grouping of the current display.
•  Folder Options: This drop-down menu contains commands to access the Folder Options dialog, and the Folder Formats system. If you have created any Favorite folder formats you can select them from this menu. This menu also contains commands to manipulate Folder Tabs, Flat View, Checkbox Mode, Navigation Lock and various filtering commands.
•  Lister Configuration: This drop-down menu contains commands to toggle the folder tree, metadata panel and status bar on or off, as well as displaying a list of your configured Lister Styles.
•  Dual Display: This button toggles dual display mode on or off.
•  Viewer Pane: This button toggles the viewer pane on or off.
•  Help: The Help menu contains links to various useful web sites (the main GP Software support site as well as the Opus Resource Centre), as well as a link to this help file itself. This menu also contains commands to access the Licence Manager, information about the program (about) and the check for updates function.

The items on the right-hand side of the toolbar are presented as graphical buttons largely to save space in the toolbar. It's worth learning their "real" names as they are often referred to by name in this help file. Remember you can always find out what a toolbar button does by hovering over it with the mouse to display its tooltip.