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** The Progress Bar is located in the lower left corner of the Gramps window. It displays the progress of time consuming operations, such as opening and saving large Family Tree databases, importing and exporting to other formats, generating web sites, etc. When you are not doing these types of operations, the Progress Bar is not shown.
** The Status Bar is located to the right of the Progress Bar. It displays information about current Gramps activity and contextual information about the selected items.
The Navigator, Toolbar, Sidebar and Bottombar can be individually turned on or off by options in menu {{man menu|View}}. If the Sidebar is not displayed, then the {{man label|Search bar}} is displayed instead.
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== When something goes wrong ==
Sometimes something goes wrong, either because you have asked to do something that Gramps doesn't know how to do, or because something has happened that the developers of Gramps did not anticipate, or because there is a mistake in the coding of Gramps.
This section explains what to do when something unexpected happens.
=== Alerts ===
An alert is a dialog that appears when Gramps needs to give you an important message about an error condition or warn you about potentially hazardous situations or consequences.
Examples are the alerts that appear if you try to open a Family Tree that was created by a different version of Gramps. tbd: add these examples, possibly others and explain what to do.
=== Warnings ===
If Gramps detects a minor error, or wishes to notify you about an occurrence within the program, then Gramps may display a warning button, as shown below. This button is only displayed for 180 seconds, so if you see it you should immediately click on it if you want to see the messages.
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=== Errors === More serious problems cause an error dialogue to appear which will describe the actions you should take. tbd. give example of the program error dialogue. Also explain what to do if Gramps suddenly quits, or if Gramps just won't start.
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== Switching Views and Viewing Modes ==