2.1 Personalize Flock and My World

My World collects together all of your favorite web sites, feeds and media, and puts it all just one click away. You can also easily personalize your My World page and many aspects of the Flock browser interface. For information about customizing other basic browser settings, also see Learn and Customize Settings.

In this section:

• Overview of Flock and My World
• Use and Customize Toolbars
• Use and Customize the Favorites Toolbar
• Use and Customize My World Favorite Sites, Feeds and Media
• Access Flock's Advanced Features

Overview of Flock and My World

When you first start the Flock web browser, My World opens automatically. Here's what you see:

• The Flock menus that give you text access to all of Flock's features.
• The Navigation Toolbar that provides commonly-used buttons for moving around the web.
• The Location Bar where web addresses (URLs) appear or can be entered.

• To the right of these is the Flock Search Widget, which lets you do quick, top-level searches of favorites, recently-visited sites and search engines.

• Beneath these lies the Flock Toolbar, which includes buttons for Flock's most important special features. The Favorites Toolbar is beside it.

• And beneath these begins the My World page, which includes the main web Search Tool and buttons for Flock's most commonly used features.

• Finally, in the left column of My World is a list of Favorite Sites. In the middle column, Favorite Feeds. In the right column, Favorite Media.

Now let's learn to use and customize these features.

Use and Customize Toolbars

1. Rest your mouse pointer over any button in the Flock Toolbar or Navigation Toolbar to see a small popup describing what that button does.
2. Click any button once to initiate that action.
3. To customize a toolbar, right-click on the toolbar or select View > Toolbars from the menu.
4. Uncheck Navigation Toolbar or Flock Toolbar to hide that toolbar.
5. Choose Customize to open the Customize Toolbar dialog and change the look of a toolbar.

6. In the Customize Toolbar dialog, click and drag buttons to and from the toolbar and the dialog to create your customized toolbar.
   Here are some special layout options:
• Separators: These separate items on the toolbars with a small vertical line.
• Spacers: These put a fixed-size space between toolbar items.
• Flexible spacers: These separate items with a space that is resized automatically to fill the empty space on the toolbar. These are good for positioning items on the right of a toolbar.
7. Click Restore Default Set to restore a toolbar to Flock's default settings.
8. Click Add New Toolbar to create an entirely new toolbar. The new toolbar will appear below the Navigation Toolbar. Drag and drop button icons onto it.
9. Click the arrow to the right of Show to choose to view the buttons as icons or text.
10. Click Done.

Use and Customize the Favorites Toolbar

1. Click on a button on the Favorites Toolbar to visit that website.
2. Click on a folder on the Favorites Toolbar to select from a drop-down list of websites to visit.
3. Right-click anywhere on the Favorites Toolbar.

4. Select Delete from the drop-down menu to remove the nearest favorite button.
5. Select New Favorite to add a new favorite button.

6. In the New Favorite dialog, enter the name, address and other optional information for the website. For more information on saving and managing favorites, see Use Enhanced Search Tools and Favorites Organizing.
7. Click OK, and the new button will appear on the Favorites Toolbar.
8. Right-click on the new button, and choose Properties from the drop-down menu to edit its address, description, tags etc.
9. To add a suite of new favorites to the Favorites Toolbar in one folder, right-click on the toolbar and choose New Folder from the drop-down menu.

10. Give the folder a name and click OK.
11. The new folder will appear on the Favorites Toolbar. Right-click on the new folder button and choose Add New Favorite to add favorites to the folder. Repeat as often as you like.

Use and Customize My World Favorite Sites, Feeds and Media

1. Click the name of a website or article in any of the columns to view that website or article in a new tab or window.
2. As you use Flock, all of these lists update automatically with your most-recently viewed or subscribed websites, feeds and media.
3. To learn more about working with favorites, see Add and Organize Favorites and Enhanced Favorites Organizing.
4. To learn more about working with feeds, see Track Feeds.
5. To learn more about working with media, see Preview and Access Media with the Media Bar.

Access Flock's Advanced Features

1. To fully access Flock's advanced features for social networking, tracking feeds etc, click on any of the buttons on the Flock Toolbar, or on any of the text buttons across the top of the My World page.
2. For more information on using these features, explore Flock Features on the Flock User Reference Guide contents page.

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