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Illustrator CS 5 palettes smart - a little too smart for me.

Mar 20, 2012 5:04 PM

I have come out of the CS 3 age and CS 5 is throwing me some curves because it is so 'helpful.'

 

What I really need help with is controlling the behavior of palettes: When I am working, the palettes keep changing according to what I am doing. I would like to not have palettes change.

 

I work intently with layers and it is aggrivating to find my layers palette has changed or disappeared so I have to go into the windows pull-down to check layers again so I can keep working.

 

Is there any way I can stop the unhelpful behavior of palettes disappearing and, or, changing while I am working with a variety of tools? I need my Layers palette to stay put and not be affected by any work I am doing.

 

Solving this would help put me back to productive work.

 

TIA,

 

Ken

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  • Monika Gause
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    1. Monika Gause,
    Mar 20, 2012 5:08 PM   in reply to Saskatchewanobie
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    In Preferences > User Interface uncheck the Auto-Collapse. Not sure if that's what you mean. You can also create your own Workspace and access from the control bar.

     
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  • Manish-Sharma
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    2. Manish-Sharma,
    Mar 20, 2012 5:10 PM   in reply to Saskatchewanobie
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    Drag the layer panel in the centre of the windows...hence you will do that you can expand the pallete with the "two black arrow button" on top left right of pallette.

     

    Then you can move the pallette wherever you want and it will not close.

     
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    3. Saskatchewanobie,
    Mar 20, 2012 9:39 PM   in reply to Monika Gause
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    Monika Gause wrote:

     

    In Preferences > User Interface uncheck the Auto-Collapse. Not sure if that's what you mean. You can also create your own Workspace and access from the control bar.

     

    This is really interesting. There must be a good reason to have palettes Auto-Collapse, and i'm not sure if that is what happened. All I know is that my layer palette kept closing as I was working. I'll give the setting to un-check Auto-Collapse in preferences a try to see if that stops the behavior I was experiencing. Creating my own workspace is not what I'm interested in quite yet, but maybe after I get the palette behavior under control. Thank You.

     

    Coming back after trying this, the box was already unchecked and read "Auto-Collapse Icon Panels" which would not affect palettes I don't think.

     
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    4. Saskatchewanobie,
    Mar 20, 2012 9:44 PM   in reply to Manish-Sharma
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    Manish_1988 wrote:

     

    Drag the layer panel in the centre of the windows...hence you will do that you can expand the pallete with the "two black arrow button" on top left right of pallette.

     

    Then you can move the pallette wherever you want and it will not close.

     

    This  sounds even more interesting, but I will need to explore what you say here on my computer in Illustrator to see how that works. If it leads to keeping the palette open without it deciding to close on it's own initiative, then it will be great.

     

    I am closing down shop right now so will try both of the ideas given in these posts tomorrow and report back, hopefully with good news.

     

    I was able to drag the layers palette out as you said and it is expanded to normal size. I will need to use it tomorrow under normal circumstances to see if it stays open. It surprises me that the palette would disappear whether or not it was grouped with other palettes. This should not be, and has never been the behavior in older versions of Illustrator or even Photoshop new versions do not behave like this.

     

    Mystery.

     

    Thank You,

     

    Ken

     
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