Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS4 Bible

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Creating and Using Objects

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Customizing the Insert Panel

The Insert panel is one of the most powerful of all Dreamweaver’s features—and it’s been made even

more so with the inclusion of the Favorites category. Unlike the other categories of the Insert panel,

the objects appearing on Favorites are easily defined by the user. If you’re willing to dig into the

XML files that define the Insert panel, you can even rearrange its contents, add new categories, and,

as noted earlier, include custom objects.

Specifying favorites

The menu structure in Dreamweaver reduces the overwhelming number of options found in the ear-

lier versions. However, the addition of menu groups, such as Media and Frames, means that often-

used objects may require more mouse clicks to access. The Favorites category provides a highly

customizable solution.

The Favorites category is composed entirely of user-selected objects. By default, Favorites is initially

empty; it’s up to you to add whatever objects you use most often. Any of the currently installed

objects can be placed in the Favorites category. You determine their order, and you can even separate

them into groups. The Favorites category can be reconfigured as many times as you like.

All changes to the Favorites category are handled within the Customize Favorite Objects dialog box,

as shown in Figure 1-2.

FIGURE 1-2

Select the desired objects either from a complete ...