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# Messages View Top Toolbar
The toolbar located along the top of [Messages view](/vspy-3-documentation/vehicle-spy-main-menus/main-menu-spy-networks/messages-view.md) is shown in **Figure 1**.
Refer to **Table 1** for details on the various toolbar selections.
### Table 1: Messages View Top Toolbar Selections
| Toolbar Selection | Description | Hotkey |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------- |
| Scroll button | Selects scrolling or static display mode.
- ON (scrolling mode) - see message traffic as it appears on the bus with the most recent message at the bottom.
- OFF (static mode) - see a stationary list of messages with changing data bytes. All messages that have been detected at least once are listed.
| F3 then M |
| [Details button](/vspy-3-documentation/vehicle-spy-main-menus/main-menu-spy-networks/messages-view/messages-view-top-toolbar/message-details-pane.md) | Opens a Details for "Message" area to help decode unknown signals in messages.
| none |
| Expand checkbox | Shows data from multi-frame messages more clearly, like USDT or J1939. Works only in static display mode.
- ON - data bytes from a multi-frame message are shown in an expanded block added below its message.
- OFF - data bytes are shown only in the same row as the message.
| none |
| [Reverse Engineering button](/vspy-3-documentation/vehicle-spy-main-menus/main-menu-spy-networks/messages-view/messages-view-top-toolbar/reverse-engineering.md) | Opens a menu with many features to help reverse engineer unknown messages and signals. | none |
| [Time Abs button](/vspy-3-documentation/vehicle-spy-main-menus/main-menu-spy-networks/messages-view/messages-view-top-toolbar/messages-view-timestamping.md) | Shows relative or absolute timestamps. Works in scrolling and static display modes.
- ON (absolute time) - time from Vehicle Spy start until that message was received.
- OFF (relative time) - time between this message and the previous one.
| F3 then A |
| [Pause button](/vspy-3-documentation/vehicle-spy-main-menus/main-menu-spy-networks/messages-view/messages-view-top-toolbar/pause-messages-view.md) | Pauses the message display. Works in scrolling and static display modes.
- OFF - display is not paused.
| F3 then spacebar |
| [Save button](/vspy-3-documentation/vehicle-spy-main-menus/main-menu-spy-networks/messages-view/messages-view-top-toolbar/save-the-buffer.md) | Saves the message buffer to a file. | F3 then S |
| [Erase button](/vspy-3-documentation/vehicle-spy-main-menus/main-menu-spy-networks/messages-view/messages-view-top-toolbar/clear-the-buffer.md) | Erases the message buffer and clears any suppression of activity highlighting. | F3 then C |
| New Form button | Opens more Messages views that operate independently from each other. A powerful feature that lets you dedicate each view to one network or ECU for example. | none |
| Find Prev, Find Next, and search field | Finds text entered in the search field. Find Next looks for the next instance while Find Prev looks for matches earlier in the traffic. | none |
| Search Location dropdown | Sets which Messages view [column](/vspy-3-documentation/vehicle-spy-main-menus/main-menu-spy-networks/messages-view/messages-view-column-headers.md#setting-up-the-columns) to search in. | none |
| Go To Line field & button | This will put the desired line number at the top of the Messages view. This works only while paused in scrolling mode or while using [Review Buffer](/vspy-3-documentation/vehicle-spy-main-menus/main-menu-file/review-buffer.md). | none |
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