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Menu bar Application bar Control panel

Default panels in the Advanced workspace

Tools panel Document window Pasteboard (work area)

About the Tools panel The Tools panel contains tools for selecting objects, working with type, and drawing as well as controls for applying and changing color fills, strokes, and gradients. By default, the Tools panel is docked (essentially, glued) to the upper-left corner of the work area. In this exercise, you will undock the Tools panel, change it to horizontal, and experiment with selecting tools. 1 Locate the Tools panel. Drag the horizontal scroll bar to the left to see the Tools panel against the pasteboard rather than the page. 2 To undock the Tools panel and make it float in the workspace, drag the panel by its gray title bar to pull it into the pasteboard.

� Tip:  To undock the

Tools panel, you can drag either the title bar or the gray dotted bar just below the title bar.

When the Tools panel is floating, it can be a two-column vertical panel, a singlecolumn vertical panel, or a single-column horizontal row.

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