Anchoring multiple palettes to the workspace

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Now, some people like floating auto hiding pallets. I'm not one of them.

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If that's you too, either click on the auto hide icon or right,

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click the sidebar and uncheck auto hide.

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Let's do that. Now,

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you can drag a left sidebar pallet to the right side.

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And when it gets close enough, the sidebar will switch sides.

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This goes in both directions. Of course,

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let's go back to the next two items in the pallets properties. Pop up. Menu,

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anchor left and anchor right are really just

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shortcuts to what we've done by dragging and dropping

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like the drag method though, allowed docking has to be on in order to use these tools.

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Notice also that auto hide is currently turned off.

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When you click on anchor left,

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the pallet anchors itself to the left side in a collapsed state.

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So it's also a shortcut to manually turning on auto hide.

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The other thing that makes docked or anchored pallets so appealing

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is that when they are collapsed into their hidden state,

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they will stack on top of each other.

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Let's open up a few other pallets and anchor them

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so that you can see how valuable this can be,

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we'll start by re anchoring properties this time to the right

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and by using the anchor right tool.

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Next, let's use sheet set manager. Go back to the view tab to display it.

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We'll anchor it left.

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Next comes the blocks pallet. It too. Will anchor left?

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Notice how the hidden pallets stacked with the most recent on the bottom.

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Let's do the

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Xref palette. Next,

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anchor it left also.

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Now we have three on the left. Let's put one more on the right.

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How about the count palette?

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Let's anchor it on the right.

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Now. You have three left and two right in all.

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I have five pallets open and ready to use,

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taking up an absolute minimum amount of screen space.