The Component Bar is what is referred to as afloating or unanchored control. As a floating control, it can be moved to any location on your desktop. To move the Component Bar, using the mouse, click and hold the mouse button on the blue title bar. Drag the Component Bar to a new location and release the mouse button. The Bar can be oriented either vertically or horizontally. To change the orientation, click the right mouse button on the title bar and select the appropriate options from the drop down menu. If you click on the small "X" in the top right corner of the Component Bar, it will seem to disappear. Don't panic. If you look around a bit you will find that it has been transformed into an anchored control at the bottom right of the active communicator window, as shown in Figure 2-10. The Component Bar looks slightly different when anchored but functions in the same manner. Once anchored, the Bar will remain anchored in all Communicator components. To change it back to a floating control, click on the maximize button (the left most button on the control bar that looks like a grey page with horizontal lines.)

The user can also move around the various Communicator components using the menu items at the top of the screen. If you click on the "Communicator" item in the menu bar, a pop up list will appear. The user can select any of the Communicator components with the mouse or can use the keyboard shortcuts, Ctrl+l, Ctrl+2, etc. The pop up list under the Communicator menu item is shown below in Figure 2-11.