Just as the Save All command lets you save multiple pages at one go, Close All Pages command lets you close multiple pages at once. The command can be found under the Window menu, see below:

When you invoke the Close All Pages command, Expression Web will close all the saved pages and throw a warning for those pages that are not saved. See below:

Expression Web will prompt you to save each and every unsaved page before closing them. Click Yes to save the page. A good practice would be to use the Save All command in conjunction with Close All Pages command. So before you use the Close All Pages command, use the Save All command to save all the unsaved pages.

In Expression Web 3 you cannot customize the toolbars or menus. But if you are still using Expression Web 2 or 1 you can place the Close All Pages command under the File menu under the Close menu item or anywhere else you find it convenient to use. Follow the tutorial Add a command to toolbar and menu bar in Microsoft Expression Web 2 to add the Close All Pages command to the ‘File menu’. The ‘Close All Pages’ command can be found under the Window and Help category in the Customize dialog box.

I hope you find this command useful.

I was working on a website last evening. I created a dynamic web template (dwt) and then generated pages from that template. As I progressed, I saw myself making some changes to the template every now and then and then saving it to update all the pages that were attached to the template. After doing that all the pages that I created from the template had to be saved in order to preview the reflected changes. If you have one or two pages attached to the template then you can save individual pages. But I had around 15 pages waiting to save. Going to each and every page (open in Expression Web) and pressing ‘CTRL + s’ was irritating.

There came the ‘Save All’ command to my rescue. The ‘Save All’ command is lets you save multiple pages at one go. So when you have many pages that are waiting to be saved (pages marked with a *) use the Save All command/button. When the pages are already saved, the option is disabled.

The command is found on the ‘Common Toolbar’ next to the Save button.

Or you can find it under the File menu > Save All.

I find it a handy tool that saves you a lot of design time, find it out yourself!

Toolbars are quite handy if used intelligently. Instead of browsing through the long menus and submenus before you find the right command, if you often use a command then why not add it on the toolbar.

To add commands to toolbars

 Right click on the toolbar and choose ‘Customize’. In the Customize window, switch to ‘Commands tab’ and click ‘Rearrange Commands’.

In the Rearrange Commands window choose the radio button next to ‘Toolbar’. Choose the ‘Common’ Toolbar and then ‘Add’.

In the ‘Add Command’ dialog box, choose the ‘Category’ (browse each if you do not know where you can find the command) and then the command to be added and then click OK. In this example we will add the ‘File…’ command to the Common Toolbar.

Click ‘Close’, to exit the ‘Rearrange Commands’ window and again, to close the ‘Customize’ window.

To add commands to menu bars

In Rearrange Commands window (see above), choose the radio next to Menu bar. From the drop down menu choose the menu bar you want to edit. Then click on Add to launch the Add Command dialog box. Now browse the categories to find the command to be added to the menu bar and click OK. For instance choose to add the File… command. The new menu bar would look as follows:

Rearrange Commands tool lets you do all possible actions to customize your toolbars and menus the way you want them. You can rearrange the commands on the toolbar to:

·         Add, remove, reorder the commands on the menu bar and toolbar.

·         Modify the name, image and keyboard shortcut associated with a menu command or button on the toolbar.

To launch the Rearrange Commands dialog box, go to Tools > Customize. In the Customize dialog box, go to the Commands tab and click Rearrange Commands.

Use the Rearrange Commands dialog box to do the following:

1.       Choose a menu or toolbar to rearrange: Select the Menu Bar or Toolbar you want to change.

2.       Controls: Select the controls you want to change.

3.       Add: Click the button to add a new control.

4.       Delete:  Click the button to delete a control.

5.       Move Up: Click the button to move the control up in a menu bar or towards left on a toolbar.

6.       Move Down: Click the button to move the control down in a menu bar or towards right on a toolbar.

7.       Modify Selection: The drop down menu has a number of options like;

·         Reset – resets the control

·         Delete – deletes the control

·         Name – You can enter a name for the control along with its keyboard shortcut. In the above image; &File… denotes ALT + N is the keyboard shortcut to access File menu.

·         Copy Button Image – lets you copy the button image associated with this control.

·         Paste Button Image – lets you paste a button image.

·         Reset Button Image – resets the button image to its default.

·         Edit Button Image – lets you edit the button image.

·         Change Button Image… – lets you choose a new button image from the menu.

·         Default Style – set the style of the button to its default.

·         Text Only (Always) – sets to always display only text for the control.

·         Text Only (in Menus) – sets to always display only text for control only when it appears in a menu.

·         Image and Text – lets you always display an image and text for the control.

·         Begin a Group – adds a group separator bar.

·         Assign Macro… – lets you link a control to a macro.

8.       Reset: Resets any and all the actions you carried out on the menu bar and toolbar.

To create a new toolbar in Microsoft Expression Web 2, follow these steps:

1.       Right click anywhere on any toolbar and choose Customize or click on the down arrow on any toolbar, select Add or Remove buttons and then choose Customize.

2.       This would launch the Customize dialog box as shown below:

3.       Click on New… and in the New Toolbar dialog box enter a name for your toolbar and click on OK.

4.       Your toolbar would now be listed on the Toolbars tab. Plus a small floating toolbar would appear besides this window which would look like this:

5.       Go to the Commands tab (on the Customize dialog box), in the categories box choose a category that contains different buttons or commands. Then choose the button or command and then drag it onto the new toolbar.

6.       To modify the buttons or commands you have added on your toolbar, right click on them and choose an action from the menu. See image below:

7.       Lastly click on Close when you are done.

8.       Dock the toolbar with other toolbars or keep it floating.