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RDeshler
RDeshler
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October 7, 2014
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Toolbar options not working since latest CC update to 2014.1.0

  • October 7, 2014
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Since updating the Illustrator to the latest version  2014.1.0 (18.1.0)  released through the Creative Cloud launch this week my toolbar does not allow me to select any of the tool options. For example my shape tool is stuck on the default for drawing rectangle. The same is true with every tool that displays the carrot arrow indicating further tool options. This issue has basically made illustrator useless to me. The keyboard shortcuts for the tools also are not opening the menus for the tool options.

Any idea what is happening?

I have already uninstalled Illustrator and tried to re-install it, but the issue still persists.

Thank you,

RDeshler

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Sidney5CF1
Participant
January 28, 2021

Try long clicking on the tool or click and dragging down. 

This helped me -- I thought it wasn't working, but it just works differently than on other Adobe products.

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Anonymous
June 11, 2017

Best Solution: To expand the toolbar buttons to show hidden tools in Illustrator, you click and hold the mouse button down.

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    tinymill
    Participant
    November 15, 2015

    I paid to upgrade this week, installed Cadtools, and now I have no menu bar whatsoever. . . I emailed hot door support, let's hope they have a fix for this soon. Without my toolbar I'm up a bit of a creek ---

    erickcqc
    erickcqc
    Participant
    July 17, 2015

    Hey! I had the same problem! illustrator can't display correctly if you have a second monitor,just open llustrator in your MAIN display aaaand thats all

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    Alberta2
    Participant
    June 24, 2015

    Glad to have found this post -- I'm using dual monitors and the toolbar only expands on my primary monitor. 

    Alt + [ tool ] works most of the time (not always).

    Looking forward to the permanent fix...

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    semantikas
    Participant
    June 19, 2015

    I was having the same issue and then I tried was Oliver Br said, I moved it to by primary monitor and all submenus worked!

    Good luck everyone!

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    Anonymous
    June 8, 2015

    Guys try long pressing.

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    Oliver_Br
    Participant
    May 20, 2015

    Apologies for possibly gravedigging this thread, but the underlying problem is still ongoing.

    I've discovered that the bug still exists in the latest Illustrator CC release, and only occurs when the application is maximized on non-primary monitor. That is, any monitor that is not set to primary.

    I can also confirm that I'm not using any third party plugins. Graphics card is an AMD FirePro 2270 with the latest drivers. There are no problems at all when the Illustrator window is maximized on the primary monitor.

    Hope this can shed some light on the situation.

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      Anonymous
      June 8, 2015

      Nope, only long pressing works for me.

      ngungonsf
      ngungonsf
      Participant
      March 13, 2015

      I was having this problem, but I had a workaround - use my main laptop monitor, and not my external monitor.

      But even after that work around, I'm getting more buggy behavior -- changing a stroke or fill on an object but the appearance of the object doesn't change. 

      I have also tried uninstalling and reinstalling.

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      GardenGirl
      Participant
      February 26, 2015

      I am having this same issue right now.  No sub-meus show on the Illustrator toolbar.  I have no plugins installed. I'm on Windows 8.1.  I can't get my job done!  Help please!!

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