Alignment panel has been moved to bottom of Properties panel when using text elements

[BrianLevin]

The Align panel options used to sit to the right, alongside, the text alignment buttons, but now the Align buttons are all at the bottom. We click those buttons a whole lot you know! Moving them to the bottom requires me to now scroll to use them, and scrolling is great but if you scroll with a mousewheel sometimes it gets stuck on drop down menus and starts scrolling the content of a menu. So you now have to be nervously cautious about where you put the mouse as you try to scroll down just to get to a button that really belongs where it used to be. Absolutely no reason to have moved it.

Would really like this panel of buttons right back where they used to be please!

[Stan Jones]

@BrianLevin,

I tend to live in the Captions and Graphics workspace, where the Properties (and previously Essential Graphics) on a UHD monitor is full-height. So I had not noticed that effect of the change. I placed screenshots of the 2024 and 2025 full-height panels below. I see what you see if I use the Editing workspace. In the 2024 Editing workspace, Essential Graphics is docked with the Project Panel group.

In addition to moving groups in the panel, the 2025 alignment group added keyframe buttons, and this changed its layout substantially; it increased from heading plus 4 lines to heading plus 6 lines.

I don't see a good option for my workflow in the old or new layout without making the panel full-height. If alignment is higher, the Text or Appearance groups would move down and require scrolling.

 

Stan

PR 2025.1 is on left; 2024.6.1 is on right.

 

[Ann Bens]

I have a 4K monitor too. Properties panel fits just fine.

On a small laptop it might be a pita scrolling all the time.

Instead of scrolling one could open/close the dropdown menus.

Kind of solo mode as in the Lumetri panel.

[R Neil Haugen]

If you flip the twirl-down for Appearance, the transform controls are closer ... but yea, this is a right pain.