Customising the Tools panel

The Tools panel can be docked or floating, on show or hidden, depending on your preference.

The Tools panel can be customised to fit your individual way of working. By removing tools, you can slim down the Tools panel and add available tools when needed.

To dock/undock the Tools panel:
To show/hide the Tools panel:
To remove/or add a tool:
  1. From the View menu, select Customise Tools.
  2. Drag a tool icon from the Tools panel into the pop-up menu, or vice versa.
  3. Click Close.
To save your Tools panel arrangement as a preset:

For future selection, the named preset you save will be shown in the same submenu as the above command.

To load a Studio preset:
  1. From the Window menu, select Studio>Manage Studio Presets.
  2. Select a preset from the list, then choose Load.
To manage Studio presets:
  1. From the Window menu, select Studio>Manage Studio Presets.
  2. Select a preset from the list, then choose Rename or Delete.
To reset the Tools panel:
  1. From the View menu, select Customise Tools.
  2. From the pop-up menu, click Reset.

The Tools panel is reset back to its default.

To set the number of columns on the Tools panel:
  1. From the View menu, select Customise Tools.
  2. From the pop-up menu, select from the Number of Columns menu.

The Tools panel displays the foreground and background colour selectors regardless of a number of columns set. These are similar to those which appear on the Colour and Swatches panels.

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