hiding palettes confusion...

[CdnJeepGirl@adobeforums.com]

Hi...first post...there will be more...glad I found this site.

When I dock tabs from different palettes, how do I make the rest of the original palette go away instead of just collapsing to the side? I ask cuz I have 10 unused palettes just sitting there and the ones I use and have docked get mixed up over there if I have to collapse the collection for a brief time...TIA :)

[Scott_Falkner@adobeforums.com]

Close the palette, or select it from the Window menu.

[Bob_Levine]

And then save the workspace so you don't have to keep doing it.

Bob

[CdnJeepGirl@adobeforums.com]

I tried to close it and it just tucks back onto the right hand side :(

[Lisa_Spike@adobeforums.com]

I think Scott means close it by dragging it out of the docked group, then click on the close "x".

[CdnJeepGirl@adobeforums.com]

That's kinda what I wanted to avoid though cuz I only use certain tabs and have them all in the one palette, but the stuff I don't use is still there taking up space...

[Lisa_Spike@adobeforums.com]

I'm not sure I follow you then. As I understood your issue, you have a tab that represents a palette, let's say the "table" palette. That tab is grouped with other tabs. But you don't use the table palette, so you don't even want to see that tab docked to the right.

Is that correct? If so, closing it as we described (only have to do it one time) should work.

If not, can you clarify?

[CdnJeepGirl@adobeforums.com]

If I pull say Character, Paragraph, Transform, Pages, Navigate out of their respective palettes and create a new palette with just those tabs in it, I still have the other palettes that they came from open and/or tucked onto the right hand side of the screen...there is no longer an option to close those open palettes either through the palette or under the Window pulldown...I am just wondering if I am just missing something or if there really is no way to close a palette once you have opened it and taken a tab out of it...

[Scott_Falkner@adobeforums.com]

Pull those palettes out of the dock, then close them.

[Lisa_Spike@adobeforums.com]

Are you using InDesign 2 or CS?

[Lisa_Spike@adobeforums.com]

From your description, sure sounds like CS. I just did what you described, and I was able to close the remaining palettes. (By dragging them out of the docked area, as Scott and I described.)

[Dennis Gordon]

If you click the Toggle button in the lower right of the Control palette,
it'll close all the palettes except those relevant to whatever frame you're
currently working on....


<Lisa_Spike@adobeforums.com> wrote in message
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> From your description, sure sounds like CS. I just did what you described,

and I was able to close the remaining palettes. (By dragging them out of the
docked area, as Scott and I described.)

[CdnJeepGirl@adobeforums.com]

Ya, it's CS...I can close them if I drag them out too...I was just wondering if there was a way to close them and keep the tabs that I actually use active in the new dock...you know, like when you customize the toolbar in other programs to have just the icons you use visible and not the entire toolbar they came from...doesn't look like it though...

[Scott_Falkner@adobeforums.com]

That's exactly what you did. You want a palette visible, then it's visible. You want a palette hidden or closed, then it is. There's no gray area available (or even imaginable).

[CdnJeepGirl@adobeforums.com]

Soooo...I showed my instructor last night what I was trying to do and he said it couldn't be done and why would I want to anyway cuz the palettes should stay together and that no one in industry ever docks anything anyway...so I guess my idea of displaying the tabs I actually use in a group so I don't have to dig for them was stupid...NOT!...I'll just learn to live with all the clutter on the right hand side, but I find it convenient to have the tabs handy and it's going to stay that way. :)

[Peggy_Coquet@adobeforums.com]

<CdnJeepGirl@adobeforums.com> wrote in message
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> Soooo...I showed my instructor last night what I was trying to do and he

said it couldn't be done and why would I want to anyway cuz the palettes
should stay together and that no one in industry ever docks anything
anyway...so I guess my idea of displaying the tabs I actually use in a group
so I don't have to dig for them was stupid...NOT!...I'll just learn to live
with all the clutter on the right hand side, but I find it convenient to
have the tabs handy and it's going to stay that way. :)

I'm in industry. I dock. Second monitors are under $200 (they don't have to
be great monitors ... ) and make a great place to store all the pallettes
you want open!

[Lisa_Spike@adobeforums.com]

no one in industry ever docks anything anyway




That's a pretty broad statement to make. How can one say ANYTHING about what EVERYONE in the industry does? No offense, but I'm not sure I'd put much stock into what this instructor tells you.

And who's to say WHICH palettes should stay together, and which palettes should be showing or hiding? The user, that's who. That's why it's customizable.

[Anne-Marie_Concepcion@adobeforums.com]

CdnJeepGirl,

I've been trying to follow your situation but it's driving me crazy:

"So I guess my idea of displaying the tabs I actually use in a group
so I don't have to dig for them was stupid...NOT!...I'll just learn to live
with all the clutter on the right hand side,"

.... why do you need to "live with all the clutter on the right hand side"?

What is it you want to do that you're unable to do? It's driving me crazy because I'm sure it's possible, and I think people have already told you the solution ... perhaps the language/terminology is getting in the way.

Sounds like you're trying to (and have figured out how to) make your own custom palette groups.

And i think you already know that the "leftover" palettes ... the ones still collapsed on the side that you don't use, leftover from the default workspace ... can be closed by 1) dragging each one out from their collapsed state to a floating palette state (not just sliding them open) and then 2) clicking their close box so they're no longer visible and you'd have to open them via the Window menu if you want to get to them.

Can I make a wild stab here and guess that you're trying to figure out how to keep your custom palette group together when you change it from a floating palette group to a collapsed palette group (that is, just their tabs peek out the side of the screen)?

If so, hold down the Alt key and drag on one of the tabs (on the name of any palette) iin the group to the side of the monitor till the group's outline "flips up." Release the mouse key, then the Alt key. Same thing to drag out a grouped set of palettes from a open or closed side tab position to a floating position, keeping them grouped: Alt-drag.

"Docking" a palette, in Adobe terminology, is when you hang the top of a palette from the bottom of another one. They move as a unit, and both can be open/accessible at the same time.

So when you say "keep them active in the new dock":

"I can close them if I drag them out too...I was just wondering if there was a way to close them and keep the tabs that I actually use active in the new dock"

.... I think you might mean "keep the tabs that I actually use as collapsed side tab group".

.....?

The terminology stinks, imho.

;-)

AM

[CdnJeepGirl@adobeforums.com]

Yes...the instructor seems to be quite the prize...

Anne-Marie...I guess it boils down to that I wanted to open a palette, drag a tab out of it and then close the original palette...I can't do that directly, but if I pull out each tab and close it, I can get rid of the excess along the sideline...I have noticed too since I have done this, the tabs are now stored seperately under the Window pulldown...it works and I am happy :)