Adobe CAPTIVATE 5 Help Manual page 21

Last updated 4/22/2010
As you drag the panels, you see blue highlighted drop zones, areas where you can drop the panels. 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 pointer, rather than the position of the panel, activates the 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.
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.
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To dock a panel, drag it by its tab into the dock, at the top, bottom, or in between other panels.
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To dock a panel group, drag it by its title bar (the solid empty bar above the tabs) into the dock.
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To remove a panel or panel group from a dock, drag it out of the dock by its tab or title bar. You can also drag it
into another dock or make it free-floating.
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To resize a panel, move the mouse over the edges of the panel. When double-sided arrow appears, drag the panel
to the required size.
Add and remove panels from docks
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.
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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.
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.
• 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.
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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
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To minimize or maximize a panel, panel group, or stack of panels, double-click a tab. You can also single-click the
tab area (the empty space next to the tabs).
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To resize a panel, drag any side of the panel. Some panels, such as the Color panel in Photoshop, cannot be resized
by dragging.
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