The customize toolbar selection is grayed

in my toolbar on the top of the screen the airport icon that showed the service and when u clicked on it showed the local wifi signals dissapeared. When i went to go to customize toolbar the selection is grayed. does anyone know how to get that icon back and what happened to my customize toolbar selection. thanks alot i'm kind of knew to the mac world

John,
The "Customize Toolbar..." option only applies to your Finder window(s). You are confusing the "Toolbar" (in Finder windows) with the "Menu Bar" (at the top of your Desktop. That's why you are seeing the "Customize" option as greyed out.
We can add a "menulet" (that's what these are called) to the Menu Bar in one of two ways... Most can be added by selecting that option in the pane for that service in System Preferences. Open System Preferences>Network, choose "Airport" from the "Show:" pull-down menu, and check the option to show Airport in the Menu Bar.
The second method we can use to get a menulet into our Menu Bar is to double-click the script that places it there. Look in /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/. In this folder, you will see a number of files with a ".menu" extension. By double-clicking any of these files, you can place the menulet associated with that service in your Menu Bar.
Scott

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