Missing Panels in Illustrator | How to Get Everything Back
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2020
- Are you missing panels, toolbars, or can't get your workspace to load correctly? Here's how to get everything back quickly and easily. If all of your toolbars and windows aren't opening up when you load illustrator, there are a couple of things that might be going on. First, you may just need to hit the tab key. Tab will turn on/off your toolbars and side windows to allow you to see more of your artboard. Also, the F key allows you to toggle full screen mode on and off - there are 3 settings for this, so cycle through them to pick your preference. Lastly, if none of that works, you probably need to reset your preferences by closing Illustrator and opening it again while holding Shift, Control, and Alt. This should clear out anything that's causing an issue, typically from a recent software update, but you'll have to go into your preferences and readjust them.
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Which method helped you get your toolbars or panels back?
nope, I need help I have a saved ai and jpeg and I want to edit them, but both don't have panels.... tried what you said and it does not work.
Yes, it has exploded. The algorithm likes me on this one. 😁
still not working held longer
I Ma not getting embeded panel in my illustrator 2020 what can i do??
If you click and drag a panel, then hover over the area you want to lock it in place, then release, it will be "embedded" - assuming that's what you mean.
Not even a minute in and you solved the most annoying problem in Illustrator. Thank you so much.
Woo-hoo! Glad this was helpful.
Thank you. Fortunately my toolbar was the only thing missing on the left side of the screen for whatever reason after an update. For those that still have the properties panel intact on the right side, but you are missing the toolbar on the left, simply select Window>Toolbars>Advanced
Great tip! The recent update has had some bugs in it too. I think they may have patched some of them already.
@@CaryHawkins Thanks, Cary. Keep up the great content. You’ve saved many from countless hours of frustration!
Thanks dear
Omg, thank you so much. I inadvertently hit tab and had no idea why everything disappeared. Thanks so much for posting this! 🥰
It's nice when the solution is so simple, isn't it? Glad this helped you.
Thank you so much! my cat took a little walk all over my laptop and you saved the day
Haha, love it! I'm glad to save you from a feline disaster.
You absolute legend, thank you so much for this, it really helped me more than you know. Most appreciated.
thank you so much sir you save my day, best of luck for more.
You just saved me a ton of frustration, thank you. I only had the right panel missing, but F did the trick.
Why does this even happen? I hate to be a complainer but I just feel it’s embarrassing on illustrators fault that this even happens.
Thanks for posting! and lots of thanks
thank you, very helpful video.
Thank you very much for your help!
You're a life saver! Thanks for posting!
Awesome! Which method worked for you?
It worked! Thanks 😊 i was frustrated yesterday... btw, if Alt Shift Ctrl doesn’t work, try to hold them longer, hold them until AI open!
still not working held longer
thank you! it worked
Yay!
Thank You, I highly appreciate this "new" trick; I'm unfortunately new to this and along with being college student and majoring in 'Graphic Design'. So the overall is that I'm pretty new to the illustrator application and these hotkeys and tools.
If your college experience was like mine, you'll learn more from tutorials than in the classroom. I taught myself 99% if what I know, and I'm not exaggerating.
I thought I was going crazy until I followed your suggestion to hit the "F" key. Thanks!
Oh my god, I clicked so many articles and tutorials that had no answer. It turns out I accidently hit "F" while doing a bunch of "CTRL F" work. THANKS!!!!!!!
Thank you so so much. Shift-Ctrl-Alt was the answer for me!
Awesome!
Dam great 👍🏽 tip, thank you. I hit tab and it worked.
Excellent!
You saved me bro.Thanks.I was missing Anchor point tool but when i change to Essentials classic it got fixed thanks again
Awesome, glad you figured it out.
Thank you so much! You saved my ass! just updated to the new illustrator and all the panels I use were missing
Hello Cary, thank you for the video.
my properties lost from top toolbar in indesign. I changed all the workspaces but properties appears right side only. Nothing comes top toolbar
THANK YOU BROTHER FOR THE ASSIST.
a huge thank brother.
Thank you Sir.! for giving us Best Solution..
You're welcome!
when i click "file info" the window doesn't pop up. I use dual screen and sometimes take my laptop with me but the window is lost somewhere in another screen. I tried even hooking up 3 screens and that window is nowhere to be found. I can't click anything afterwards so I'm forced to force quit the program. ugh.
Thank you Mr. Cary. You are a life saver. I was afraid I was going to have to reset my prefs because it was farting around. Ended up I had to reset prefs. Eff windows man. I'm getting annoyed and can't wait till I can scrounge up the dough to gladly pay the apple tax so I can go back to now having to fiddle with anything. Not too much of a mac fanboy, just love it if I can save time. Thank you again.
Apple tax? Oh you are SO young. You get what you pay for. No Apple tax.
@@Liam_Maddog You haven't heard of that before? It's tongue and cheek. Apple tax refers to the difference in cost between apple and every other generic awful product that runs windows. I don't know if it came through in my comment, but I am high favor and respect of apples products/quality products.
I love you. You absolute ducking legend
Aflac!
My issue has been restoring the draw inside icon. I have draw behind draw normal and draw behind. The draw inside was working with my very first projects but is no longer active.
THANK YOU!
You r a life saver
Thanks a lot!!
Thanks Cary! Very helpful. I'm still new to Illustrator - it's like trying to sip from a fire hose hahaha! Thanks for helping me out... :)
It takes a long time to master any Adobe program. I'm still learning and have been using it since 2005.
@@CaryHawkins Helpful to know... I can stop being so hard on myself. :) It's annoying and frustrating and amazing and incredible at the same time.
CTRL+SHIFT+ALT Thank you sir for this fix. It happened to me this evening and haven't quite seen anything like it.
Glad to hear you got it to work for you!
Wow, Thank you!
Welcome!
Love you man thank you
Thanks!
Thank a lot very helpful was it.
Good, glad it was.
Hi Cary, 'Ctrl/Shift/Alt' didn't work and neither did 'tabs' or the 'F' button, however, I now know that's what the 'F' button does. What worked for me was having done all you suggested I set up the layout the way I like, saved and then closed and opened it up again and all of a suggestion a new predefined layout appeared with elements I didn't know existed. I think this is an Adobe Illustrator action that wants you see how your layouts can look. I made some minor adjustments and now all works well...Thank you for post anyway...
if ctrl + shift + alt did not work for some of you, try manually resetting your preferences in illustrator then restart.
Yes, it's working. Thanks mate!
hello i am new and i cant find the pencil tool i keep watching videos but cant find it at all
thanks man that was useful
Thanks!
Very helpful
So rusty with illustrator now. For the life of me I could not get long skinny art board menu at the top of the page visible where you can change the size etc. My workspace drop down isn't visible like yours so I did a search and found it. Essentials was checked and once I selected the essentials classic the art board menu showed up. Still can't view the drop down but I'm happy I have other menu visible now. You gave me a good start. Thank you.
Me too I got an issue with the drop down. It's kind of tucked.
Hi Cary. I am not even showing the tool bar at the top that shows "file, edit, object......" Can you help? Thanks
Thank you!
Welcome!
Thnx bro 💖
very nice problem solved
My properties panel is missing how can i fix that
Thank you
Thanks...... 👍🏻
Hello Cary, thank you for the video.
My “Adobe Master Collection CS6” is missing the “Toolbars” option at the “Windows” pulldown menu (only “Tools” is there).
Also, the ‘three dotes’, at the bottom of the Tools Menu bar do not exist.
Please advise
My advise is to get Cc. It's so much better than CS6. I haven't used that version since it was new, so I don't recall what's missing or different.
TYSM!!
help I lost my 'properties' on the right bar. I've tried window > properties. do you know how to fix this?
You might be in essentials classic under workspace instead of essentials.
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Thanks for help
Sure thing!
tnx its works!!!
Yay!
Thank you soo musch
Welcome!
Can you tell me how to make the advanced tool bar to stay permanently? Because everytime I open Ai it keep going back to basic toolbar and I had to change it again and again
You can save your workspace. Under Window, I believe.
Ok i just got Adobe I. 2020 and i dont have the quick access menu like you have there. all the videos i watch show it and i would LOVE to find that in the settings. Its the bar under the home icon that says no selection. all that stuff to the right of that i dont have on my version after i installed. where is that at folks?
Go to window > workspace > essentials classic. Otherwise, you will have a properties panel on the right. Essentials is the new default, but I don't like it.
@@CaryHawkins ohhhh yes! Thank you so much. When i was practicing vector tracing it was so annoying trying to find the commands while dude in video was just click click done lol
I hope i will get answers here . I want to edit my pattern that i want to create but there are no editing options showing on the editing panel when i click make pattern. How do i fix this
Hopefully, this answers your question. I would make the pattern and create a swatch with it by dragging the pattern into your swatches window. You can than double click on the new swatch you created and make edits that way.
OMG you are my hero🤣🤣
Yay!
thanks
thank you for you tutorial bt you did not mention how to find the right side essential part Hide/visible
thank you dear sir
You are welcome! Thanks for leaving feedback.
plz tell me i lost my layers tool how to get it backk plzz hellpppp
thanks ❕😭❤
Would help me, how to fix that my illustrator cs 6 can not change from one tool to other tool like from rectangle tool to ellipse?
I'am so frustrated 😭 about this problem
Sorry, it's been years since I used cs6. I don't remember it.
Thaanks!
You're welcome!
omg thank uuu
You are great😍
Don't make me blush!
😉
Mine was going to windows and clicking toolbar then advance and they came out..but grate video
I just downloaded illustrator, there isn't a control bar! and every tutorial ever, even the preset tutorials are telling me to use it! I only have it for a trial to create a logo that I already have drawn.. how do I get the control panel and why didn't it open with the application?
Go to window > workspace and see if you can play with the settings there. I use classic. The newer defaults are more minimal than I like.
Thanks
Welcome
i dont have the panel at the top, what is it called? how do i set it up?
Under your workspace layout, choose Essentials classic.
had to do ctrl + shift + alt, le sigh. but lesson learnt: it's easier in the long run to save my preferences and workspace. this used to happen me a lot of times at random and my solution was to restart ai. if that didn't work, i would close ai and leave it be for a few minutes and open it.
It's random. Sometimes this works, sometimes that. It's a pain to have to reset, but it's a good trick to know just in case.
for those who it didnt work yet same as me till i found a new way, i tried all the ways, didnt work for me, so i just went to EDIT-PREFERENCE-GENERAL-RESET PREFERENCES-OKAY-RESTART NOW, and it worked, hope it works for you as well.
Thanks for sharing
Hello, so everything in illustrator is like, floating. and i've tried going through the windows settings but nothings worked.
Describe floating.
@@CaryHawkins like the main panel with the art board is like floating. I can move it around and see my desktop. With the top bar still in place. I’m not sure how to explain.
Click the top portion of it and drag it until it clicks in place unde the top bar. You should see a slight outline to let you know it's working.
@@CaryHawkins it does work with the tools bar but not the actual art bord
I had to reset my preferences, which is annoying. I still don't understand why illustrator just removed the panel.
thanks'
You're welcome!
good
Bueno
My control bar is existing butt its just empty
How can I solve this?
You might try resetting your workspace and see if that fixes it. Under Windows tab.
It's only true pain when this happens to a administration locked school computer
I accidentally clicked the x on the toolbar on the left.....I can't seem to get it back....I already tried resetting the preferences
Try looking under Window or resetting your workspace.
@@CaryHawkins thanks you
my alighn tool not working
it didnt work for me it doesnt do anything helpp
Have you tried the suggestions in the comments? I didn't cover every possibility in this video.
Dude, you do have tool bars!!!!! I have absolutely nothing just a grey blank page!!
Have you tried the troubleshooting in the video? There are also a few I left out that are in the comments. Let us know what works, if anything.
@@CaryHawkins Thanks I'll try all.
Sadly that didn't fix it but thanks for tips
Try resetting your preferences
@@CaryHawkins I did. I had to go into preferences to do it. It didn't work when i pushed ctrl shift alt. Thank you, it works now :-D
Ah, so the keys didn't work for you. Hmm. Maybe you didn't hold them down long enough?
it still doesn't work for me
my tool bar is not. coming with tab button plzz help
windows > toolbar try this
Did Sunthar's suggestion work?
@@CaryHawkins It worked for me, thank you
1:10 just press tab
That's the easy problem to solve, but what if it's one of the other issues?
dud it didnt woork i still cant see the diffrent tools.
It probably isn't the answer for all issues. Have you tried changing workspace to see if that brings them back?
@@CaryHawkins god knows this is first time im using the program but ima try thx
i got a way, it still didnt work for me i tried all the ways, so i just went to EDIT-PREFERENCE-GENERAL-RESET PREFERENCES-OKAY-RESTART NOW, and it worked, hope it works for you as well.
Nothing happens
I closed my toolbox and I don’t know where to find it
Have you looked under Window?
@@CaryHawkins Yeah I got it to work just by searching tools in help Lmao
Wow, i have got mine back🎉🎉🎉🎉🥰🥰🥰
Tab! ah too late.
goat
Adobe's Achilles' Heal: Preferences. for 10 years and counting.
I've honestly only had to reset a few times over 15 years. It is annoying but rarely a big problem for me. Everyone's experience can vary though.
@@CaryHawkins I gave up even doing it anymore. For example, InDesign will randomly not load with my custom layout, with the same randomness as RUclips ignoring my Dark Mode setting. Could be the OS. But as always with Adobe, you have to wait about 12 years to have something nagging fixed.
I still can't get mine back :(
You can always try to reinstall if one of these methods doesn't fix it.
@@CaryHawkins I kinda just reset the whole thing yeah lol now I don't have any colours apart from black and white
It didn’t work for me 😩
Drat. Mind sharing with me how you get your back when you do?
Did not work. I think this is just the default setup of the latest Adobe illustrator. I guess they're trying to make it more "tablet friendly".
F button for me, thanks.