Optimizing the workspace view with Autohide

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Let's open the layers property manager pallet.

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It's one of the pallets that's not in the view tab,

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it's over on the home tab.

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So we'll need to go there. We'll dock it next to the properties pallet.

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Just those two dock pallets effectively take up half of our editor with pallets.

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Notice that when the pallet is docked,

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the sidebar moves to the top, let's undock it by pulling it away from the top bar

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for now, let's close the layers pallet.

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There's a great solution for this space problem though.

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Remember the second icon on the now relocated sidebar,

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click on it to turn on the auto

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hide feature.

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Your property's palette will shrink up to a small

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vertical bar instead of displaying the entire pallet.

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Now, all you have to do is roll your mouse over the hidden pallet to make it display

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as long as your mouse is within the pallet, it will continue being displayed,

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remove the mouse focus to make it hide again.

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Maybe you want to float your pallet again. It's quite easy.

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Roll over the collapse pallet. The sidebar is also displayed in this state

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just left, click the sidebar and keep holding down the button.

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Now drag it off to somewhere else.

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Notice that once you move your mouse away from the pallet,

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it will auto hide since that feature is still selected.