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Changing the palette display


    You can rearrange your palettes to make better use of your work area by using the following techniques:

    • To make a palette appear at the front of its group, click the palette's tab.
    • To move an entire palette group, drag its title bar.
    • 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.
    • To move a palette to another group, drag the palette's tab to that group.
    • To dock palettes so that you can move them together, drag a palette's tab to the bottom of another palette.
    • To move an entire docked palette group, drag its title bar.
    • To display a palette menu, position the pointer on the triangle  the triangle in the upper right corner of the palette and hold down the mouse button.
    • 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.

    • 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.
    • 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.

    TipFor maximum performance, hide all palettes except those that are necessary for your work.