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philipavery
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February 12, 2021
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Dreamweaver 21 toolbars

  • February 12, 2021
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I have just come back to DW after several years and have found a lot of changes! One that I do not understand is that the standard toolbar floats and seems to be undockable. Having done a quick search, I came across a sugestion that all that was necessary was to drag the toolbar by the dark area on its edge to below the menu tabs and a blue docking line would appear. It didn't, so, not too sensibly, I tore off the common toolbar and now can't get that to dock either. I'm assuming that this is not a feature! Advice would be most welcome.

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    Jon Fritz
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    Jon FritzCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 12, 2021

    Click and drag the far left edge of the toolbar (or the named tab of the window).

    Move the toolbar to the upper edge of the application frame until you see a highlight (only Document and Standard).

     

    Release and it will lock in place.

    The Common toolbar can only be locked to the application frame vertically on the left or right edges and follows the same procedure. 

    None of them will lock in place until you see the highlighting first...

     

    If you are on a Mac, make sure your Application frame is turned on. I thinkn that may still be an issue with the Mac version, it's been a long time.

     

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      philipaveryAuthor
      Inspiring
      February 12, 2021

      Hi Jon

      Thanks for the quick reply. Something appears to be wrong. I'm used to tearing off toolbars and re-docking them in other Adobe apps (just so you know I'm not entirely clueless!) so that's exactly what I've been (trying) to do. Just now, I got the Common toolbar to dock, tore it off, and now am not getting the blue line. I've still got nothing with the Standard toolbar.

       

      I notice that I was updated to 21.1 four days ago. I'm going to try to revert to an earlier release to see if that makes a difference. As far as I can see, I only have 20.2.1 available. I will let you know how that goes.

       

      Regards

       

      Philip

      Jon Fritz
      Community Expert
      Jon FritzCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      February 12, 2021

      Adobe's new availability plan makes only the most current, and 1 version back, available through the CC Desktop App.

       

      You should be able to Go to Window > Workspace Layout > Reset Workspace to get things back to where they were.


      If the blue outline simply won't appear, no matter what, it's possible Restoring Preferences could help: https://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/kb/restore-preferences-dreamweaver.html 

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