You can turn on/off the shortcut bars shown on the left of the screen if you have a very small screen size by going to View->Show/Hide Sidebar. In some cases the tabbed ribbon can be a good alternative to the shortcut sidebar on the left of the screen if working from a small screen. You can also toggle the “tabbed ribbon” which was the default in V2.0 of BeerSmith by going to View->Toggle Tabbed Ribbon. You can change it to small icons to use less screen space if you click on View->Small/Large Ribbon. Changing the Ribbon, Preview and Shortcut Barsīy default the ribbon at the top of the screen shows large icons. You need to have your cursor over the line separating the header (column names) at the top of the view for this to work. Just drag the small line separating column headers at the top of any column right or left to adjust the width. You can also adjust the size of columns in these views. You can also change the order of columns displayed by selecting one and clicking Move Up or Move Down. To remove one click on the column name on the right and click “Remove”. To add a column, select it from the list on the left and click Add. This will display a dialog showing both the current columns displayed and other columns available.įrom that dialog you can select new columns, remove columns or change the order of the existing columns. To do this, go to View->Customize Columns (or right click on the column header itself and select Customize Columns). Customizing Columns and Column Sizeĭid you ever want to show details like final gravity, total hops used or ABV for your list of recipes? In My Recipes view or any of the other “list” views you can customize the columns displayed for your list of recipes, ingredients or profiles. To open a recipe in its own window, hold down the shift key and double click on the recipe. So to bring up a tool, hold down the shift key and click on the tool. This is particularly useful if you are working with a large monitor or have two monitors connected to your computer.įortunately opening any view in a separate window is pretty simple – just hold down the Shift key while opening the new view. You can even open a recipe folder in its own window. Alternately you might want to open another recipe while still viewing the current recipe so you can do a side-by-side comparison of the two recipes. For example you might want to pop up the hydrometer tool to do a quick adjustment on a gravity reading without closing the recipe you are working on. Quite often when working on the desktop, you don’t want the latest tool or recipe to open in a separate tab (which is the default). Opening Recipes or Tools in a Separate Window So for example if you often use the “Water Profile” tool to adjust your water, just go down to Tools->Water Profile in the shortcut pane shown to the right, then right-click on it and add that to your list of favorites. If you right click on any of the tools under Favorites (or any of the other views below that) you can add or delete items from the Favorites list. To help you get to your favorite tools quickly, the shortcut view on the left side has a “Favorites” list. Using Your Favorite ViewsīeerSmith has a bunch of different tools and views, and most people seem to use the same views or tools over and over again. So here are a few tips on how to manage all of the views in BeerSmith to get more out of your favorite brewing software. BeerSmith has quite a few customizable tools for adjusting how you see your recipes as well as how you interact with the program itself. Follow week I wanted to share how you can work just a bit faster using BeerSmith 2 by managing your views, shortcuts and folders.
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