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Prof. Jenkins
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March 31, 2023
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Can you save Panel Locations and Menu Customization in Illustrator workspaces like in InDesign?

  • March 31, 2023
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It seems Illustrator won't display your workspace until you start a file. But if you have a file open, you won't have the same preference settings for every file. Any solutions? Why isn't this consistent with InDesign workspace saving?

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Monika Gause
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Monika GauseCommunity Expert
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March 31, 2023

You can enter the workspace by clicking on the Ai logo in the top right of your Homescreen.

For everything else: exactly what do you want to customize? Workspaces basically work the same as in InDesign.

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Prof. JenkinsAuthor
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March 31, 2023

Excellent! Yes, that works with the Ai logo at the top. Gets me in to make changes w/o a document open. There are things I like to change such as default font, optical instead of metrics, deleting all the colors I don't need in swatches, adding a color swatch since the Pantone list is now gone, etc. Thank you!

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Prof. JenkinsAuthor
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March 31, 2023

Well actually, I take that back. Although my tool panels show up, they all are mostly greyed out. So I still can't set things up as I want like in InDesign. Having rulers on by default, for another example. This is a more recent change as I used to be able to save all this within my workspace just like InDesign. Now, with everything greyed out, the only way to make changes is to start a new document. But then the changes aren't default for every document; just the new one I created. Then if I quit Illustrator and come back, preferences are still right, but menu and panel customization is back to Adobe's defaults.

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