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If you are using a Mac and prefer the traditional, free-form user interface, you can turn off the Application frame.
In Adobe Illustrator®, for example, select Window > Application Frame to toggle it on or off. (In Flash, the
Application frame is on permanently for Mac, and Dreamweaver for Mac does not use an Application frame.)
Hide or show all panels
• (Illustrator, Adobe InCopy®, Adobe InDesign®, Photoshop, Fireworks)To hide or show all panels, including the
Tools panel and Control panel, press Tab.
• (Illustrator, InCopy, InDesign, Photoshop) To hide or show all panels except the Tools panel and Control panel,
press Shift+Tab.
You can temporarily display hidden panels if Auto-Show Hidden Panels is selected in Interface preferences. It’s
always on in Illustrator. Move the pointer to the edge of the application window (Windows®) or to the edge of the
monitor (Mac OS®) and hover over the strip that appears.
• (Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks) To hide or show all panels, press F4.
Display panel options
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Click the panel menu icon
in the upper-right corner of the panel.
You can open a panel menu even when the panel is minimized.
In Photoshop, you can change the font size of the text in panels and tool tips. In the Interface preferences, choose a
size from the UI Font Size menu.
(Illustrator) Adjust panel brightness
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In User Interface preferences, move the Brightness slider. This control affects all panels, including the Control
panel.
Reconfigure the Tools panel
You can display the tools in the Tools panel in a single column, or side by side in two columns. (This feature is not
available in the Tools panel in Fireworks and Flash.)
In InDesign and InCopy, you also can switch from single-column to double-column (or single-row) display by setting
an option in Interface preferences.
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Click the double arrow at the top of the Tools panel.
Manage windows and panels
You can create a custom workspace by moving and manipulating Document windows and panels. You can also save
workspaces and switch among them. For Fireworks, renaming custom workspaces can lead to unexpected behavior.
Note: The following examples use Photoshop for demonstration purposes. The workspace behaves the same in all the
products.
Rearrange, dock, or float document windows
When you open more than one file, the Document windows are tabbed.
• To rearrange the order of tabbed Document windows, drag a window’s tab to a new location in the group.
• To undock (float or untab) a Document window from a group of windows, drag the window’s tab out of the group.
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Note: In Photoshop you can also choose Window > Arrange > Float in Window to float a single Document window,
or Window > Arrange > Float All In Windows to float all of the Document windows at once. See tech note kb405298
for more information.
Note: Dreamweaver does not support docking and undocking Document windows. Use the Document window’s
Minimize button to create floating windows (Windows), or choose Window > Tile Vertically to create side-by-side
Document windows. Search “Tile Vertically” in Dreamweaver Help for more information on this topic. The workflow
is slightly different for Macintosh users.
• To dock a Document window to a separate group of Document windows, drag the window into the group.
• To create groups of stacked or tiled documents, drag the window to one of the drop zones along the top, bottom, or
sides of another window. You can also select a layout for the group by using the Layout button on the Application bar.
Note: Some products do not support this functionality. However, your product may have Cascade and Tile commands
in the Window menu to help you lay out your documents.
• To switch to another document in a tabbed group when dragging a selection, drag the selection over the document’s
tab for a moment.
Note: Some products do not support this functionality.
Dock and undock panels
A dock is a collection of panels or panel groups displayed together, generally in a vertical orientation. You dock and
undock panels by moving them into and out of a dock.
• To dock a panel, drag it by its tab into the dock, at the top, bottom, or in between other panels.
• To dock a panel group, drag it by its title bar (the solid empty bar above the tabs) into the dock.
• To remove a panel or panel group, drag it out of the dock by its tab or title bar. You can drag it into another dock
or make it free-floating.
Navigator panel being dragged out to new dock, indicated by blue vertical highlight
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Navigator panel now in its own dock
You can prevent panels from filling all the space in a dock. Drag the bottom edge of the dock up so it no longer meets
the edge of the workspace.
Move panels
As you move panels, you see blue highlighted drop zones, areas where you can move the panel. For example, you can
move a panel up or down in a dock by dragging it to the narrow blue drop zone above or below another panel. If you
drag to an area that is not a drop zone, the panel floats freely in the workspace.
Note: The position of the mouse (rather than the position of the panel), activates the drop zone, so if you can’t see the drop
zone, try dragging the mouse to the place where the drop zone should be.
• To move a panel, drag it by its tab.
• To move a panel group, drag the title bar.
Narrow blue drop zone indicates Color panel will be docked on its own above the Layers panel group.
A. Title bar B. Tab C. Drop zone
Press Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) while moving a panel to prevent it from docking. Press Esc while
moving the panel to cancel the operation.
Add and remove panels
If you remove all panels from a dock, the dock disappears. You can create a dock by moving panels to the right edge
of the workspace until a drop zone appears.
• To remove a panel, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac) its tab and then select Close, or deselect it from
the Window menu.
• To add a panel, select it from the Window menu and dock it wherever you want.
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Manipulate panel groups
• To move a panel into a group, drag the panel’s tab to the highlighted drop zone in the group.
Adding a panel to a panel group
• To rearrange panels in a group, drag a panel’s tab to a new location in the group.
• To remove a panel from a group so that it floats freely, drag the panel by its tab outside the group.
• To move a group, drag the title bar (the area above the tabs).
Stack floating panels
When you drag a panel out of its dock but not into a drop zone, the panel floats freely. The floating panel allows you
to position it anywhere in the workspace. You can stack floating panels or panel groups so that they move as a unit
when you drag the topmost title bar.
Free-floating stacked panels
• To stack floating panels, drag a panel by its tab to the drop zone at the bottom of another panel.
• To change the stacking order, drag a panel up or down by its tab.
Note: Be sure to release the tab over the narrow drop zone between panels, rather than the broad drop zone in a title bar.
• To remove a panel or panel group from the stack, so that it floats by itself, drag it out by its tab or title bar.
Resize panels
• To minimize or maximize a panel, panel group, or stack of panels, double-click a tab. You can also double-click the
tab area (the empty space next to the tabs).
• To resize a panel, drag any side of the panel. Some panels, such as the Color panel in Photoshop, cannot be resized
by dragging.
Collapse and expand panel icons
You can collapse panels to icons to reduce clutter on the workspace. In some cases, panels are collapsed to icons in the
default workspace.
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Panels collapsed to icons
Panels expanded from icons
• To collapse or expand all panel icons in a column, click the double arrow at the top of the dock.
• To expand a single panel icon, click it.
• To resize panel icons so that you see only the icons (and not the labels), adjust the width of the dock until the text
disappears. To display the icon text again, make the dock wider.
• To collapse an expanded panel back to its icon, click its tab, its icon, or the double arrow in the panel’s title bar.
In some products, if you select Auto-Collapse Icon Panels from the Interface or User Interface Options preferences,
an expanded panel icon collapses automatically when you click away from it.
• To add a floating panel or panel group to an icon dock, drag it in by its tab or title bar. (Panels are automatically
collapsed to icons when added to an icon dock.)
• To move a panel icon (or panel icon group), drag the icon. You can drag panel icons up and down in the dock, into
other docks (where they appear in the panel style of that dock), or outside the dock (where they appear as floating
icons).
Save and switch workspaces
By saving the current size and position of panels as a named workspace, you can restore that workspace even if you
move or close a panel. The names of saved workspaces appear in the workspace switcher in the Application bar.
Save a custom workspace
1 With the workspace in the configuration you want to save, do one of the following:
• (Illustrator) Choose Window > Workspace > Save Workspace.
• (Photoshop, InDesign, InCopy) Choose Window > Workspace > New Workspace.
• (Dreamweaver) Choose Window > Workspace Layout > New Workspace.
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• (Flash) Choose New Workspace from the workspace switcher in the Application bar.
• (Fireworks) Choose Save Current from the workspace switcher in the Application bar.
2 Type a name for the workspace.
3 (Photoshop, InDesign) Under Capture, select one or more options:
Panel Locations
Saves the current panel locations (InDesign only).
Keyboard shortcuts
Saves the current set of keyboard shortcuts (Photoshop only).
Menus or Menu Customization
Saves the current set of menus.
Display or switch workspaces
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Select a workspace from the workspace switcher in the Application bar.
In Photoshop, you can assign keyboard shortcuts to each workspace to navigate among them quickly.
Delete a custom workspace
• Select Manage Workspaces from the workspace switcher in the Application bar, select the workspace, and then
click Delete. (The option is not available in Fireworks.)
• (Photoshop, InDesign, InCopy) Select Delete Workspace from the workspace switcher.
• (Illustrator) Choose Window > Workspace > Manage Workspaces, select the workspace, and then click the Delete icon.
• (Photoshop, InDesign) Choose Window > Workspace > Delete Workspace, select the workspace, and then click
Delete.
Restore the default workspace
1 Select the Default or Essentials workspace from the workspace switcher in the application bar. For Fireworks, see
the article http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fireworks/articles/workspace_manager_panel.html.
Note: In Dreamweaver, Designer is the default workspace.
2 For Fireworks (Windows), delete these folders:
Windows Vista
\\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Fireworks CS4\
Windows XP
\\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Adobe\Fireworks CS4
3 (Photoshop, InDesign, InCopy) Select Window > Workspace > Reset [Workspace Name].
(Photoshop) Restore a saved workspace arrangement
In Photoshop, workspaces automatically appear as you last arranged them, but you can restore the original, saved
arrangement of panels.
• To restore an individual workspace, choose Window > Workspace > Reset Workspace Name.
• To restore all the workspaces installed with Photoshop, click Restore Default Workspaces in the Interface
preferences.
To rearrange the order of workspaces in the application bar, drag them.
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The Contribute workspace
The Contribute workspace has three main areas: the Contribute browser and editor, the toolbar, and the sidebar.
A. Sidebar B. Toolbar C. Start page in the browser and editor
The Contribute browser and editor
The main window in Contribute is used for browsing and editing. If you are not sure whether you are browsing or
editing in Contribute, look at the toolbar. The toolbars are different when you are browsing and when you are editing
a draft.
When you use the Contribute browser, you can browse to any web page—not just to pages on your website. The
Contribute browser functions as a true web browser: Click links in web pages to browse to the page you want to edit.
You can also create bookmarks to pages that you visit frequently.
When you use the Contribute editor, you can edit pages in websites you have connected to (see “Connect to a blog” on
page 4). You can edit text, images, tables, links, and pages with frames.
It’s easy to browse and edit in Contribute, and to switch between browsing and editing. For more information, see
“Switch between browsing and editing” on page 23.
The Contribute toolbars
The Contribute toolbar changes according to whether you are browsing or editing a web page or a blog entry. When
you are editing a web page, the editor toolbar lets you edit text or images, depending on the content you’ve selected.
And when you are editing a draft for your blog, the blog metadata and secondary metadata toolbars help you tag your
blog pages.
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When you receive or open a web page, the toolbar displays buttons for only those actions that you can perform at that
stage of the workflow, and to which you have permissions.
The Browser toolbar
Contains buttons for navigating your website or creating a page or blog entry. The browser
toolbar contains the same options for websites and blogs.
The Editing toolbar
Contains buttons for common operations from the File, Insert, Format, and Table menus. The
toolbar options vary depending on whether you are working on a draft for a website or a blog.
A. Action buttons B. Insert content C. Add row or column D. Page properties E. Check Spelling F. Compare page display in browsers
G. Preview the draft by selecting a browser H. Edit included file
The Blog Metadata toolbar
Contains information about the draft, including the blog title, the blog post title, and the
associated tags. This toolbar is available for blog drafts only.
The Secondary Metadata toolbar
Contains more options for associating metadata with a blog post. This toolbar is
available for blog drafts only.
The Text Formatting toolbar
Contains buttons for formatting text. The text formatting toolbar options also vary
depending on whether you are working on a draft for a website or a blog.
A. Style menu B. Font menu C. Font size menu D. Bold E. Italic F. Alignment buttons G. List buttons H. Outdent/Indent buttons I. Text
color J. Highlight color K. Widget properties
Note: If your Contribute administrator has restricted editing to text only, some formatting options are not available. Also,
options might be disabled if a cascading style sheet has been applied to a text selection.
The Image Editing Toolbar
Contains buttons for editing images.
A. Resize B. Rotate buttons C. Crop D. Sharpen E. Brightness/Contrast F. Style G. Resize H. Alignment I. Hotspot selection tools J. Image
Properties K. Page Properties L. Edit image with Fireworks M. Edit image with Photoshop
The Contribute sidebar
The Contribute sidebar makes it easy to switch between editing and browsing, and gives you quick access to your
drafts. You can also use the sidebar to get quick instructions for performing tasks in Contribute.
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The sidebar has two parts:
The Pages panel
Gives you access to the web browser and all drafts you’re currently editing. There is also a link to the
Draft Console, which shows the status of your drafts.
Note: The Draft Console is not available if your website doesn’t have an administrator assigned.
The How Do I panel
Provides quick step-by-step instructions to help you complete some common Contribute tasks.
The panel shows a list of browsing tasks while you are browsing, and a list of editing tasks while you are editing.
Click any link in the How Do I panel in the sidebar to get more information on that task. If the desired task is not in
the list, see Contribute Help (Help > Adobe Contribute Help) to get detailed information.
You can expand, collapse, or resize the panels and the sidebar.
Expand or collapse the sidebar
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Do one of the following:
• Select View > Sidebar.
• In Windows, click the arrow on the splitter bar between the sidebar and the Contribute browser and editor.
• In Mac OS, double-click the grabber on the splitter bar between the sidebar and the Contribute browser and
editor.
Resize the sidebar
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Drag the splitter bar between the sidebar and the Contribute browser and editor.
Expand or collapse a panel in the sidebar
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Double-click the panel title bar.
Resize panels vertically in the sidebar
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Drag the title bar in the How Do I panel.
Switch between browsing and editing
You can use Contribute to browse or edit web pages and blog entries. You can switch between browsing and editing
at any time. When you leave a draft you’re editing, Contribute saves your changes so that you can return to the draft
later and continue editing where you left off.
When you switch to browsing, Contribute does not publish your draft. While you are browsing the page or blog entry,
the message area advises you that you have an unpublished draft of the page or blog entry.
If you are not sure if you are browsing or editing in Contribute, look at the toolbar. When you are browsing, you’ll see
the browser toolbar with the Edit Page (or Create Connection) button, and when you are editing, the editor toolbar
appears (see “The Contribute toolbars” on page 21).
Switch from browsing to editing
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Do one of the following:
• Click the Edit Page button in the toolbar to edit a web page, or click the Edit Entry button to edit a blog entry.
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Note: Edit Page and Edit Entry are enabled only for pages on a website or entries in a blog that you are connected
to and that you have permission to edit.
• Click a draft title in the Pages panel in the sidebar.
Switch from editing to browsing
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Do one of the following:
• Click Browser in the Pages panel in the sidebar.
• Click the Save For Later button in the toolbar.
• Select View > Browser.
More Help topics
“Browse to web pages and blog entries” on page 24
Browse to web pages and blog entries
The easiest way to find a web page or blog entry you want to edit is to browse to the page or entry in Contribute like
you would browse in any web browser.
To learn other ways to find your web pages or blog entries, see “Open web pages and blog entries without browsing”
on pag e25.
Note: (Windows only) If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer as your primary web browser, the Contribute browser
inherits preferences from Internet Explorer. To change basic settings, such as fonts, cookies, or plug-ins, change your
preferences in Internet Explorer; then start Contribute again.
You can browse to any website or blog entry with Contribute, but you can edit only web pages and blog entries that
are in your websites and blogs; that is, websites or blogs that you’ve created connections to (for more information, see
“Connect to a blog” on page 4). When you browse to a page that is in your website or a blog entry that is in your blog
and that you have permission to edit, the Edit Page button is enabled in the toolbar.
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Do one of the following:
• Click links in web pages or blog entries to navigate to other pages.
• Type the web address (URL) of the page in the Address text box, and click Go. You can also press Enter or
Return.
• Select View > Go To Web Address, enter the web address (URL), and click OK.
More Help topics
“Open web pages and blog entries without browsing” on page 25
“Edit existing web pages and blog entries” on page 50
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