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• • August 29, 2010 at 4:55 pm #56870
    stingpin

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    Just got CS5, and am happy about many of the new features in InDesign. But the panels are driving me crazy!

    Originally, all the panels that I have docked together down the side (Pages, Links, Stroke, etc.) were docking at the top and side, but now I can't get them to dock no matter what I do. And when I open a new document (unless another document is already open, when it just creates a new tab), it insists on opening the document full screen, so the undocked panels are overlapping my document.

    I've tried mucking with the Interface Preferences, but nothing I've tried has made a difference. Is there anything I can do about this?

  • August 30, 2010 at 4:37 am #56874
    Roland

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    I haven't had any problems with the panels or document windows. Just look for the blue bars (vertical or horizontal, depending on whether you're creating a new dock-column or adding to one) when you try to dock panels.

    Perhaps the document sorting icon (top-most bar of the application, next to the Bridge icon) can be of help fixing your problem with full-screen documents?

  • August 30, 2010 at 5:40 pm #56880
    stingpin

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    The panels are docking to each other just fine. But when I first installed CS5, the grouped panels were docked to the side of the screen, in the same way the two bars across the top of the screen are. But now, the grouped panels are always “floating” and thus a new document window runs behind them.

  • August 30, 2010 at 11:32 pm #56882
    Roland

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    Okay, just pick up the entire group of panels and move it off the right-side of the screen. Once your cursor hits the right location, a vertical blue bar appears and you can let go to re-dock the panels on the side.

    Alternatively you could try going to Window > Workspace > Reset X where X is the name of the current workspace.

  • August 31, 2010 at 12:13 am #56883
    stingpin

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    Somehow dragging to the right didn't help, but “reset essentials” did. Now I have to redo my docked panels, of course, so I'd better save a workspace in case this happens again. Thanks.

  • August 31, 2010 at 11:45 pm #56892
    Roland

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    That's why, once I had the panels I use regularly all set up the way I want, I saved the workspace as “default”. I do that for all Adobe programs that have workspaces. Creating a back-up might be a good idea too :)

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