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<title>The Shortcut Bar</title>
<para>
<application>Evolution</application>'s most important job is
- to give you access to your information, and help you use it
+ to give you access to your information and help you use it
quickly. One way it does that is through the
<interface>shortcut bar</interface>, the column on the left
- hand side of the main window. The shortcut bar has two types
- of buttons: big ones with names like
- <guilabel>Inbox</guilabel> and <guilabel>Calendar</guilabel>,
- and small rectangular ones at the top and bottom, which are
- called category buttons.
+ hand side of the main window. The large buttons with names
+ like <guilabel>Inbox</guilabel> and
+ <guilabel>Contacts</guilabel> are the shortcuts, and you can
+ select different groups of shortcuts by clicking the
+ rectangular category buttons.
</para>
<para>
- The category buttons are labelled <guilabel>Evolution
- Shortcuts</guilabel> and <guilabel>Internet
- Directories</guilabel>. When you click on them, they'll slide
+ The category buttons are <guibutton>Evolution
+ Shortcuts</guibutton> and <guibutton>Internet
+ Directories</guibutton>. When you click on them, they'll slide
up and down to give you access to different sorts of shortcuts.
When you first start <application>Evolution</application>, you
are looking at the <guilabel>Evolution Shortcuts</guilabel>
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
others you or your system administrator might have added.
Internet directories behave a lot like the local contact
manager, which is covered in <xref linkend="usage-contact">.
- </para>
+ </para>
<para>
Take a look at the <guilabel>Evolution Shortcuts</guilabel>
again. They are:
@@ -183,9 +183,9 @@
To remove a shortcut from the shortcut bar, right-click on it
and select <guimenuitem>Remove</guimenuitem>. </para>
<para>
- To change the way the shortcut bar looks, right-click in the
- shortcut bar but not on a button. From the menu that
- appears, you can select icon sizes.
+ To change the way the shortcut bar looks, right-click in an
+ empoy space on the shortcut bar. From the menu that appears,
+ you can select icon sizes.
</para>
</tip>
</sect1>
@@ -205,9 +205,9 @@
<guilabel>External Directories</guilabel>, for contact
directories stored on a network. The most important one is
probably <guilabel>Local</guilabel>, which you can use to access
- all the data that's actually stored on your computer. If you
- click on the plus sign plus sign next to the
- <guilabel>Local</guilabel> folder, you'll see the contents:
+ all the data that's stored on your computer. If you click on
+ the plus sign plus sign next to the <guilabel>Local</guilabel>
+ folder, you'll see the contents:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
@@ -250,6 +250,17 @@
<guilabel>Contacts</guilabel> for storing contacts.
</para>
+ <note>
+ <title>Folders have Limits</title>
+ <para>
+ You can always place a folder inside other folders,
+ regardless of folder type. However, calendars,
+ contacts, and mail can't go into the same
+ folder. Calendars have to go in calendar folders, mail
+ in mail folders, and contacts in contact folders.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+
<!-- UNIMPLEMENTED
<para>
Right-clicking will bring up a menu for just about anything