Photoshop CC 2014: how to dock the floating Options bar?

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February 23, 2015
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hi Photoshoppers,

Anyone know how to dock the Options bar in PS CC 2014? When I open it for the first time, it floats. I tried looking this up online and can't find a solution. I figure it can't be rocket science.

kind regards,

-c

Correct answer War Unicorn

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Can you take the Options panel by the left-most "grip" and slowly drag it to the bottom-most border of the menu bar? It should turn blue to indicate docking. Release and it should dock.

Chris PannyAuthor

Inspiring

I figured out what I was doing wrong. When I tried to drag the bar down below the Menu, I wasn't dragging if far enough and was probably just shy of making the blue indicator light up, so that's why it wasn't working for me. Anyway, it's all sorted now, thanks to everyone's help.

-c

It's only an island if you look at it from the water.

War Unicorn

Community Expert

Awesome.

It can be finicky if you don't go slow enough. I should have noted in my screenshot that where the "grip" of the Options bar and the bottom of the menu bar intersect is where my mouse cursor was as that's how the blue indicator lights up to indicate docking.

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

Hah! I didn't know the Options bar could be undocked. Not that I can think of a reason for doing so.

Chris PannyAuthor

Inspiring

I just tried resetting the current workspace, but the Options bar is still floating.

It's only an island if you look at it from the water.

War Unicorn

Correct answer

Community Expert

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Can you take the Options panel by the left-most "grip" and slowly drag it to the bottom-most border of the menu bar? It should turn blue to indicate docking. Release and it should dock.

Chris PannyAuthor

Inspiring

That's would you'd think would happen, since the other panels, including the Tools behave that way. However, when I tried to drag it below the Menu, nothing happens. I even tried some keyboard modifiers (hold CNTRL or ALT, etc, in different combinations).

This is a pretty unnecessary feature, in my opinion. Plus, it should be docked by default.

It's only an island if you look at it from the water.