The toolbars are shortcuts for menu commands. Every toolbar command can also be run by selecting the identical command from the menu. There are two slight exceptions to this statement. The New File button will create a script with the default format rather than asking for the format you want. The Print button will print the entire document rather than presenting the print dialog box.
If you do not want a toolbar displayed, you can get rid of it. Select View, Insertbar and the toolbar for inserting paragraph types will go away. Select it again and it will re-appear.
You can also move the toolbars to different positions at the top or drag them away from the top to be separate pop-up windows. You can also drag them to different edges of the window. To move a toolbar move the mouse over a part of the toolbar that is not a button, press the left mouse button, and drag to the new position. If you are near a window border, it will attach to that border. If not, it will be a pop-up window. To change a toolbar’s size, go to an edge and re-size it. You can have your window look like this:
To determine what a given button does, just move the cursor over that button and then don’t move it. A tool-tip will pop-up giving you the function of that toolbar. The toolbars are grouped by the main menu they provide accelerators for.
The Toolbar provides commands from the File, Edit, and Help menus. The Format bar provides commands from the Format menu. The Insert bar provides commands from the Insert menu. The View bar provides commands from the View menu. The Show bar provides commands from the View, Show Paragraphs sub-menu. (The Statusbar is not a toolbar, it is the status lines on the bottom of the window.)
There are also several buttons that will depress showing the state of the script at the position the caret is at. (For selected text, it shows the state at the beginning of the selection.) These are the format buttons showing how the paragraph is formatted, the view button showing the view selected, the show buttons showing what paragraphs are displayed, the dual/single column buttons showing what column mode it is in, and the bold/italic/underline buttons.