View Menu: Toolbars

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Toolbars provide quick access to many functions in Audacity. In some cases the functions provided by a toolbar are available only through that toolbar. Other than the Spectral Selection Toolbar and the Scrub Toolbar, all toolbars are enabled by default. If your desired toolbar is not visible, choose View > Toolbars and click to put a checkmark by the toolbar you wish to enable.
View Menu has commands that determine the amount of detail you see in all the tracks in the project window. It also lets you show or hide Toolbars and some additional windows such as Undo HistoryTransport Menu commands let you play or stop, loop play, scrub play or record (including timed and sound activated recordings)Tracks Menu provides commands for creating and removing tracks, applying operations to selected tracks such as mixing, resampling or converting from stereo to mono, and lets you add or edit labelsGenerate Menu lets you create audio containing tones, noise or silenceAudacity includes many built-in effects and also lets you use a wide range of plug-in effectsThe Analyze Menu contains tools for finding out about the characteristics of your audio, or labeling key featureThe Tools Menu contains customisable toolsThe Extra menu provides access to additional Commands that are not available in the normal default Audacity menusThe Help Menu lets you find out more about the Audacity application and how to use it. It also includes some diagnostic tools.Zoom in/out on the horizontal axisControls the sizes of tracksMove forward/backwards through the audioBrings up the History window which can then be left open while using Audacity normallyBrings up the Karaoke window, which displays the labels in a "bouncing ball" scrolling displayMixer Board is an alternative view to the audio tracks in the main tracks windowToolbars can be used to determine which of the Audacity toolbars are displayedShows extra menus with many extra less-used commandsOption to show or not show audio that is too loud (in red) on the wave formUsing this command positions all toolbars in default location and size as they were when Audacity was first installedControls playback and recording and skips to start or end of project when neither playing or recordingChooses various tools for selection, volume adjustment, zooming and time-shifting of audioDisplays recording levels and toggles input monitoring when not recordingDisplays playback levelsAdjusts the recording and playback volumes of the devices currently selected in Device ToolbarCut, copy, paste, trim audio, silence audio, undo, redo, zoom toolsPlays audio at a slower or faster speed than normal, affecting pitchControls playback and recording and skips to start or end of project when neither playing or recordingSelects audio host, recording device, number of recording channels and playback deviceControls the sample rate of the project, snapping to the selection format and adjusts cursor and region position by keyboard inputDisplays and lets you adjust the current spectral (frequency) selection without having to be in Spectrogram viewThe MenusView-ToolbarsMenu.png
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This menu shows and hides toolbars. For details of the toolbars and what they do, see Toolbars Overview.
  • Click on the check marks to hide or show a toolbar.
  • Click on 'Reset Toolbars' to get back to the default selection and position of toolbars.

Reset Toolbars  

Using this command positions all toolbars in default location and size as they were when Audacity was first installed.


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