Learn how to customize your interface, manage panels and workspaces, and enhance your workflow experience with this comprehensive guide.
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Customizing the Interface: Panels & Workspaces
To simplify the interface and reduce screen clutter, panels can be expanded or collapsed, as shown below.
Toggling the Panel Dock Between the Full Panel & Icons
As shown below, click the button at the top right of the panel dock to either expand the panels (so you can see what’s in them), or collapse the panels to buttons.
Reordering Docked Panels
To rearrange the panel order, drag the icon or name up/down to the desired locations. As shown below, the blue line indicates where it will be positioned.
Docking Panels to the Side of the Screen
Panels can be docked to the right or left sides of the screen (they’re typically docked on the right side of the screen). Once docked, other panels can easily be added.
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As shown below, if no panels have been docked, drag the panel’s tab to the right side of the screen until a dark band appears. Then release the mouse.
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To dock additional panels, just drag them into the docked area as shown below.
Undocking Panels
To undock a panel from the side of the screen, drag the icon/name/tab out of the dock and release it anywhere in the middle of the screen.
Saving a Workspace
Even if you rearrange the panels, resetting to a saved workspace resets the interface back to how you like it. Once you’ve arranged the toolbars and panels as you like, you can save the workspace.
Go to Window > Workspace > New Workspace.
Give it a name and click OK.
Loading a Workspace
Go to Window > Workspace and choose a workspace such as Essentials.
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The panels will now be arranged, hidden/shown, etc. according to that workspace.
NOTE: Workspaces will re-load the way they were previously arranged, remembering your customizations. To revert to the originally saved version, choose Window > Workspace > Reset [the name of the workspace such as Essentials].