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The main toolbar in the Write (composition) window has a Smileys button; how can I remove it?

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The toolbar in question is the one that appears (by default?) just above the text window and includes various text-formatting buttons, e.g. font colour, bold, italic. When I click the "Customize" button at the top of the window, there is no reference to this toolbar. Nor does there seem to be any relevant add-on/plugin that controls it.

Normally, to remove a customizable button, it is only necessary to drag the button into the "Customize" window. Nothing happens.

The toolbar in question is the one that appears (by default?) just above the text window and includes various text-formatting buttons, e.g. font colour, bold, italic. When I click the "Customize" button at the top of the window, there is no reference to this toolbar. Nor does there seem to be any relevant add-on/plugin that controls it. Normally, to remove a customizable button, it is only necessary to drag the button into the "Customize" window. Nothing happens.

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I think you are referring to the Formatting Bar. At the top of the mail composition window you should have a series of menus: go to View > Toolbars and untick 'Formatting Bar'.

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amanchesterman said

I think you are referring to the Formatting Bar. At the top of the mail composition window you should have a series of menus: go to View > Toolbars and untick 'Formatting Bar'.
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amanchesterman said
I think you are referring to the Formatting Bar. At the top of the mail composition window you should have a series of menus: go to View > Toolbars and untick 'Formatting Bar'.

Sorry, but no use.

It is only the one Smiley button that I want to get rid of; the other formatting buttons are important to me, especially as the keyboard shortcuts do not always work. And even there, the View/Toolbars/Customize option does not apply to the Formatting Bar.

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If I right-click my Formatting Bar, I get a Customize window and I can drag the smiley button to and fro.

But I wonder what it is about a smiley button that offends you. Will you also be looking to disable ;, - and ) to prevent users creating them the old fashioned way? ;-)