I have installed a number of extension into Dreamweaver MX. Many of these ext. have created their own tabs and my insert bar is getting very cluttered.

I read the PDF about customizing Dreamweaver but could not find these new "categories" that are created by these extension installs and thus new tabs.

I would like to consolidate all these ext to one tab. Are these new tabs in the insert.xml file? I don't see them there.

Try looking in your:
C:\Documents and Settings\profile.COMPUTERNAME\Application Data\Macromedia\Dreamweaver MX\Configuration\Objects folder. They really are in there, to create a category and button with separator you would use:

<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code>&lt;category folder="MyFolder" id="My_ID" showIf=""&gt;
&lt;button enabled="" file="Folder\MyFile.htm" id="MY_ID" image="Folder\myImage.gif" name="My name here" showIf="_SERVERMODEL_model" /&gt;
&lt;separator id="My_ID_Sep" /&gt;
&lt;more buttons here after the optional separator...&gt;
&lt;/category&gt;
</font id=code></pre id=code>
Hope that helps you on your way.

with regards,

Dennis van Galen
DMXzone Manager

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