There are those Finder windows, slick and textureless with their gentle gradient-gray title bars. There’s the Dock, looking photo-realistic and shiny on its 3-D mirrored shelf. I'm having trouble finding Mac screenshots where it's docked - in most, it's floating awkwardly above the left ruler. You can’t help reacting, one way or another, to the futuristic, sleek looks of Mac OS X the first time you arrive at its desktop. Here's a screenshot I found online (looks like Windows version of CS6?) where the tools bar is docked: no close icon, slots in neatly alongside the content panes, not treated as a seperate window by the OS. The main InDesign window stays where it is, awkwardly sat between the icons and my other windows, in the way of the other windows - effectively making it impossible to use F3 to switch to a different other window without switching out of InDesign first. In InDesign CS6, it's the floating tool bar, not the main window, that shrinks. In every application except InDesign, when I press F3, the current window shrinks down and I see every other open window, organised by application, with each application's icon floating on top. It's not just the inconsistency and nuisance of it sitting on top of the documents and not moving with the rest of the window that causes a problem: I'm on a Mac (Lion) and the floating toolbar breaks a normal useful operating system function. You can create a dock by moving panels to the right edge of the workspace until a drop zone appears. Add and remove panels If you remove all panels from a dock, the dock disappears. Press Esc while moving the panel to cancel the operation. I can make it snap to position in a corner, but it doesn't dock and doesn't stop floating. Press Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) while moving a panel to prevent it from docking. I've tried on a variety of Window > Arrange settings, and with Window > Application Frame both ticked and unticked, and nothing works. I can't see any option to stop it floating. I've also looked in Preferences > Interface and the only options refer to the "Floating tools bar" and give the same one row vertical, two rows vertical, and one row horizontal options as the tool bar itself. To temporarily hide the Dock, follow these steps: 1. That way you’ll know which edge of the screen to move the pointer to make the Dock appear again. Make sure that you know the location of the Dock before you hide it. The only options in the toolbar itself switch between one row vertical, two rows vertical, and one row horizontal. If the dock appears at the left side of the screen, you can make a hidden Dock appear by moving the pointer to the left side of the screen. ![]() Unlike every other window, it never gives the option to dock, no matter where I drag it. ![]() I can't find any way to do this in InDesign CS6 (Version 8.0, Mac), however. In all my CS applications except InDesign CS6 (Mac), I can dock the tools window by the side of the main content panes like any other window: drag it to the edge, and at just the right point, it highlights where it will be docked with a blue outline, and docks when you let go.
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