Toggle palette visibility while text is selected

[Dion Geaney]

Hi. Some of you may think this is totally trivial but it is something I find really annoying:

I often work with all the palettes and toolbars hidden (by pressing the tab button). Now while working in this mode, often I will have text highlighted and then I realise I need to see my palettes. If I press tab while the text is selected it will of course delete the text. I find it annoying to have to commit the text (or in Illustrator or InDesign CTRL-Click elsewhere on the page to deselect text) then press tab.

Does anyone know of a keyboard shortcut that will allow the palettes to reappear while the text is selected? (I realise I can just click on Window>Whatever...but I was curious about a keyboard shortcut).

[Cheesefood]

And I'd love to find out how to zoom in or out while Transforming or adding Layer Effects.

[Dion Geaney]

I just need to make a change to my original post. I've just realised in Photoshop when you press tab while text is highlighted, the text doesn't disappear, nothing appears to happen.

Also, it just occured to me that most of the palettes seem to have F8/F9 etc shortcuts assigned to them so I could memorise all of them but a single shortcut for all (exactly as per the tab key) would be nice.

[Trevor Morris]

Dion:

As you've discovered, there is no single key, but many of the palettes have their own keys (F5 = Brushes, F6 = Color, F7 = Layers, F8 = Info, F9 = Actions, Ctrl+M = Paragraph and Ctrl+T = Character).

[Trevor Morris]

Wait for eight :-)