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Customizing Dreamweaver overview

Macromedia Dreamweaver can be customized in many ways, allowing you to work in a manner that's familiar, comfortable, and efficient for you.

The following are some of the ways you can customize Dreamweaver:

	Set preferences for everything from color schemes and highlighting to site configurations and browsers. See Setting preferences.
	Change keyboard shortcuts. To change shortcuts using a graphical interface from within Dreamweaver, see Using the Keyboard Shortcut Editor. If you prefer to edit a text file to change the keyboard shortcuts, see Changing keyboard shortcuts.
	Add third-party extensions. See Adding extensions to Dreamweaver.
	Rearrange the objects in the Objects panel so that the ones you use most often are always visible, create new categories to reorganize the objects, or add new objects. See Modifying the Objects panel.
	Change the names of menu items, add new commands to menus, and remove existing commands from menus. See About customizing Dreamweaver menus.
	Edit the source formatting profile to gain finer control over the format of HTML that Dreamweaver creates. The SourceFormat.txt file includes all the settings from the HTML Format preferences and more. See Changing default HTML formatting.
	Change how third-party tags (such as ASP and ColdFusion tags) appear in the Document window's Design view. See Customizing the interpretation of third-party tags.
	Create your own commands and floating panels using JavaScript. See Extending Dreamweaver: Basics.