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How to Place an App on Your Samsung Galaxy Tablet’s Favorite Tray

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Lots of interesting doodads festoon your Samsung Galaxy tablet’s Home screen, like bugs on a windshield after a long trip. You can set the background, add an icon or a widget, and rearrange everything to your heart’s content. Or when your heart isn’t content, you choose to make your gall bladder content.

Some Galaxy tablets feature a Favorites tray on the Home screen. It’s a row of app icons that floats along the bottom of every Home screen panel. Or when the tablet is reoriented, the Favorites tray sticks to the side of the screen. Either way, the same icons still appear on every Home screen panel.

To add an icon to the Favorites tray, first move off an existing icon: Long-press the icon and drag it to the Home screen. Then you can drag into the blank spot any other icon. Or you can do both actions at once: Drag an icon onto the Favorites tray and one of the existing icons swaps places with it.

  • Unlike on the Home screen, you cannot create folders on the Favorites tray.

  • To determine whether your Galaxy tablet features a Favorites tray, swipe the Home screen left or right. If the bottom row of icons remains on both screens, you are looking at the Favorites tray.

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Dan Gookin has been writing about technology for 20 years. He has contributed articles to numerous high-tech magazines and written more than 90 books about personal computing technology, many of them accurate.
He combines his love of writing with his interest in technology to create books that are informative and entertaining, but not boring. Having sold more than 14 million titles translated into more than 30 languages, Dan can attest that his method of crafting computer tomes does seem to work.
Perhaps Dan’s most famous title is the original DOS For Dummies, published in 1991. It became the world’s fastest-selling computer book, at one time moving more copies per week than the New York Times number-one best seller (although, because it’s a reference book, it could not be listed on the NYT best seller list). That book spawned the entire line of For Dummies books, which remains a publishing phenomenon to this day.
Dan’s most recent titles include PCs For Dummies, 9th Edition; Buying a Computer For Dummies, 2005 Edition; Troubleshooting Your PC For Dummies; Dan Gookin’s Naked Windows XP; and Dan Gookin’s Naked Office. He publishes a free weekly computer newsletter, “Weekly Wambooli Salad,” and also maintains the vast and helpful Web site www.wambooli.com.