Here's the trick: when you access a command from a menu like Special > Cross-Reference the Cross Reference panel opens up. Most panels dock themselves to the panel group on the right, others may need to be pulled over and docked manually (like Edit > Find/Change). Pick one of the default workspaces from the workspace menu at the top right corner of the FrameMaker window (Authoring, Design and Manage Graphics are three to consider as the starting point, depending on your workflow). Then add the extra panels that you use. Here's how to access the specific panels you mentioned: Special > Cross-Reference Special > Conditional Text > Show/Hide Conditional text View > Pods > Fonts Format > Paragraphs > Designer Format > Character > Designer Table > Format > Designer As you use each feature, the appropriate panel opens. Once you have customized the toolbars, pods and panels the way you like to see them, go to the workspace list at the top right of the FrameMaker window, and choose New Workspace and save your custom workspace with an appropriate name. When I'm teaching new Fm students, we make a workspace called "Learning FrameMaker" shown below (though we collapse the pods at the bottom to get them out of the way until we need them): The perfect workspace is the one that has all of your everyday commands front and center, and removes the ones you never use. When panels "disappear"—which means that someone undocked them and then clicked the close box—just return to your workspace list and select Reset Workspace from the bottom of the list. Every panel that was there when you saved returns to the original position. As for the second part of your question, here are the keyboard shortcuts: Adobe FrameMaker (2015 release) . Hold on to your hat: there are more shortcuts here than most people ever want to know about. But for those of us who love keyboard shortcuts, it's a little slice of heaven.
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