About The Adobe Workspace - Adobe AFTER EFFECTS 7.0 Manual

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About the Adobe workspace

Adobe video and audio applications provide a consistent, customizable workspace. Although each application has its
own set of panels (such as Tools, Properties, Timeline, and so on), you move and group panels on your computer
screen in the same way across products.
The main window of a program is the application window. The various panels are organized in this window in an
arrangement called a workspace. The default workspace contains groups of panels as well as panels that stand alone.
You customize a workspace by arranging the panels, usually by dragging them, in the layout that best suits your style
of working. You can create and save several custom workspaces for different tasks—for example, one for editing and
one for previewing.
You can drag panels to new locations, move panels into or out of a group, place panels alongside each other, and
undock a panel so that it floats in a new window above the application window. As you rearrange panels, the other
panels resize automatically to fit the window.
You can use floating windows to create a workspace more like those in previous versions of Adobe applications, or to
place panels on multiple monitors.
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