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"Add arrowheads" missing

New Here ,
Feb 24, 2017 Feb 24, 2017

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Hi all,

I would like to add arrowheads to a stroke in Illustrator. However, the section "add arrowheads" is missing in the stroke panel. Where did it go? Thanks for your help.

Florian

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Community Expert , Feb 24, 2017 Feb 24, 2017

Double click the panel's title bar (or its tab).

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Feb 24, 2017 Feb 24, 2017

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Double click the panel's title bar (or its tab).

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New Here ,
Feb 24, 2017 Feb 24, 2017

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Thank you... works!

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Explorer ,
Sep 06, 2018 Sep 06, 2018

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THANK YOU!! Also, why did they need to hide the stroke options unless the "Stroke" title was double-clicked?? That was such a confusing and useless feature...

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Community Expert ,
Sep 06, 2018 Sep 06, 2018

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it's always seemed a bit silly to me that any of the options in panels are hidden.

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Community Beginner ,
Jun 14, 2018 Jun 14, 2018

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It doesn't work the same way it has for a dozen+ years in Illustrator CC 2018.

Adobe - WTF did you do???

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Community Expert ,
Jun 14, 2018 Jun 14, 2018

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thinkcooper!  schrieb

It doesn't work the same way it has for a dozen+ years in Illustrator CC 2018.

Can you please tell us step by step what exactly is not working for you?

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Community Beginner ,
Jun 14, 2018 Jun 14, 2018

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User error...

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 10, 2020 Jul 10, 2020

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I don't know why (the hell) Adobe with EVERY new Version is making a once-perfect software tool worse and worse and worse instead of improving it! This is something I will never understand and is why I still prefer to work with the old 5.5 Master Collections Versions. These ones are much more logical, much faster to work with, more intuitive, and user friendly than the new versions!

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Community Expert ,
Jul 10, 2020 Jul 10, 2020

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What change is causing problems for you? It's not clear from your post.

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Community Beginner ,
Mar 08, 2021 Mar 08, 2021

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With every new revision and update, Adobe seems compelled to move tools around.  Rather than leaving tools where long time users know where to find them, tools seem to be constantly moved from one menu to the next.  It's frustrating for the long time user, shows disrespect for loyal customers and adds no value; imagine if somebody broke into your garage once a week, opened up your tool box and moved everything around for no apparent reason?  

 

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Community Expert ,
Mar 09, 2021 Mar 09, 2021

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What isn't working for you? The arrowheads function hasn't changed since CS5.

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New Here ,
Dec 06, 2022 Dec 06, 2022

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Job security for the developers. They need something to do to justify their salaries.

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Dec 06, 2022 Dec 06, 2022

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Job security for the developers. They need something to do to justify their salaries.


By @Christine1127

 

What's funny is that most of the things complained about in this thread happened because of user error ...

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 10, 2020 Jul 10, 2020

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 10, 2020 Jul 10, 2020

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New Here ,
Aug 17, 2018 Aug 17, 2018

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It's real easy, but does not excuse them needlessly changing it:
In the Appearance tab (Window > Appearance), click on the word/hyperlink "Stroke."
That's all.

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Community Expert ,
Aug 17, 2018 Aug 17, 2018

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What has changed?

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Community Expert ,
Aug 17, 2018 Aug 17, 2018

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https://forums.adobe.com/people/Jamie+Starr  wrote

It's real easy, but does not excuse them needlessly changing it:

Well, I don't think I'd characterize removing its weak implementation from the Effect > Stylize > menu and replacing that with a comprehensive set of controls on the Stroke panel as "needless change."

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New Here ,
Jun 07, 2022 Jun 07, 2022

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Thank you so much! This worked for me. The menu I was looking for showed up as soon as I selected "Stroke".

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New Here ,
Nov 22, 2019 Nov 22, 2019

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No one of the options has worked for me, I just can't seem to find the arrow library anywhere...

I'm on CC 2019 ID v14.0.3

Any guidance appreciated

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Community Expert ,
Nov 22, 2019 Nov 22, 2019

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InDesign 2019? This topic is about Illustrator.

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Community Beginner ,
May 28, 2020 May 28, 2020

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Yeah none of those worked for me. Am on CS3. Any guidance much appreciated. Screen Shot 2020-05-28 at 09.09.14.png

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Community Expert ,
May 28, 2020 May 28, 2020

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At some point, the arrowhead controls were moved from the Effect menu (as John Mensinger mentioned above) to the Stroke panel. My memory doesn't stretch back far enough to know if that was between CS3 and CS4, but it would make sense if that was the case, given your experience.

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Community Beginner ,
May 28, 2020 May 28, 2020

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Ah thanks doug. Id read John's comments but not twigged that may be where it switched from. Yes - CS3 it's under effects. Thank you 🙂 I've spent two hours so far trying to draw an arrow. Given up on Illustrator. It's just beyond me. Even in photoshop am trying to create a transparent background cutout and failing. 12 years Ive had cs3 - also a subscriber to Creative Cloud but deleted all the current crop of versions from my machine and reverting to CS3 which I get on better with. It just baffles me why everything is so hard. I use Archicad every day but there isn't a day I have to do something in Adobe when I don't wish I didn't have to.

I think I'm gonna to have to buy a transparent background arrow, because the £2k adobe software I bought and have been using for 12 years I can't work out how to use. Crazy.

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