Using the palette well

The palette well helps you organize and manage palettes. You can store palettes that you don't frequently use in the palette well. You can still access the palettes, without having them expanded in the work area.


Palette well

Note: The shortcuts bar must be showing in order to use the palette well. Choose Window > Shortcuts to display the shortcuts bar if it's not open.

To use a palette in the palette well:

Click the palette's tab. The palette remains open until you click outside it or click the palette's tab.

To store palettes in the palette well:

Do one of the following:

• Drag the desired palette's tab into the palette well so that the palette well is highlighted.
• Make sure that the Close Palette to Palette Well option is selected in the palette's menu (see Using palette menus), and then close the palette.

To move a palette in the palette well:

Click the palette's tab and then drag it to a new location in the palette well.

To view information about a palette in the palette well:

1. Position the pointer over the palette's tab.
2. Look at the Hints palette to see a brief description of the palette. (See Using the Hints palette.)