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Adobe Illustrator Help
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To show or hide a palette:
Do one of the following:
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Choose Window > (window name). A check mark appears before a window that is
currently open.
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Press Tab to hide or show all palettes and the toolbox.
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Press Shift+Tab to hide or show all palettes except for the toolbox.
Changing the palette display
You can rearrange your palettes to make better use of your work area by using the
following techniques:
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To make a palette appear at the front of its group, click the palette’s tab.
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To move an entire palette group, drag its title bar.
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To rearrange or separate a palette group, drag a palette’s tab. Dragging a palette
outside of an existing group creates a new palette window.
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To move a palette to another group, drag the palette’s tab to that group.
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To dock palettes so that you can move them together, drag a palette’s tab to the bottom
of another palette.
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To move an entire docked palette group, drag its title bar.
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To display a palette menu, position the pointer on the triangle in the upper right
corner of the palette and hold down the mouse button.
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To change the size of a resizable palette, drag the lower right corner of the palette
(Windows) or drag the size box at the lower right corner of the palette (Mac OS).
Note:
A few palettes, such as the Color palette, cannot be resized by dragging.
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To collapse a group to the palette titles only, click the minimize/maximize box
(Windows) or click the zoom box (Mac OS). You can still open the palette menu from a
collapsed palette.
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To cycle through the available sizes for a palette—the default size, size with hidden
options showing, size as resized by dragging, and palette titles only—double-click the
palette’s tab.
For maximum performance, hide all palettes except those that are necessary for your
work.
