# Open in external editor no longer in toolbar

**URL:** <https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/open-in-external-editor-no-longer-in-toolbar/9111>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [1 June 2020 08:36 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/open-in-external-editor-no-longer-in-toolbar/9111 "2020-06-01T08:36:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![daniel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/daniel/32/233_2.png) [@daniel](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/daniel)\
**Post date:** [1 June 2020 08:36 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/open-in-external-editor-no-longer-in-toolbar/9111/1 "2020-06-01T08:36:49Z")

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Joplin 1.0.216 (Win10)

I no longer see the “[open external icon](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/External_link_font_awesome.svg)” in the toolbar. Has it been removed intentionally? I can’t find any mention of it in the changelog other than that it has been added to the note context menu.

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**Author:** ![victorkane](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/victorkane/32/1913_2.png) [@victorkane](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/victorkane)\
**Post date:** [1 June 2020 09:20 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/open-in-external-editor-no-longer-in-toolbar/9111/2 "2020-06-01T09:20:22Z")

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I join you @daniel in seeing this. I use VS Code as my external editor every day (Mac Catalina, desktop, latest version of Joplin), and I was feeling that the functionality is really improving as of late. For example, you change something directly in the internal editor and the external editor picks it up and vice-versa, so the best of all possible worlds, and all the functionality of vscode for table of contents creation from markdown, for markmap (mindmap) creation, whatever… then to see now I can only manage this from the menu is a real let down.

Feedback on this change: if it’s a mistake, I would vote heavily to reinclude the button in toolbar.

If it is intentional, PLEASE put it back. To have to keep using the menu is a a real let down (my feedback anyway).

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**Author:** ![dpoulton](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/dpoulton/32/29723_2.png) [@dpoulton](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/dpoulton)\
**Post date:** [1 June 2020 09:24 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/open-in-external-editor-no-longer-in-toolbar/9111/3 "2020-06-01T09:24:09Z")

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It looks like a previous post about this on the forum has the answer you were looking for!

> [@Missing toolbar button](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/missing-toolbar-button/8907/2):
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> It will be back in next release.