can anyone advise me on getting corel back please?

[Glenn Sharp]

Not a direct answer I know but by right clicking over the offending toolbar, brings you up a whole list of options.

You might need to play with them for a bit cos they are not always obvious

[Ryan Fairweather]

normally there would be an option of pick,zoom,rectangle,elipse,text etc etc on the far left of the screen.

now there is none at all so i cant right click on anything!

going to kill the little brat 😀 always happens when you have a ton of work to do as well!

any other suggestions?

[David Rowland]

hi…
there is a “reset all”..
when starting Corel, you hold down one of the F keys… Could be F9 and it resets everything.

[Ryan Fairweather]

im afraid not, just brings the different options (shortcuts) up. even if you use the Ctrl or alt keys.

[Shane Drew]

This is the help for v12, may be similar in 8?

Move a toolbar – Click the toolbar’s grab area, and drag the toolbar to a new position.

Dock a toolbar – Click the toolbar’s grab area, and drag the toolbar to any edge of the application window.

Undock a toolbar – Click the toolbar’s grab area, and drag the toolbar away from the edge of the application window.

Resize a floating toolbar – Point to the edge of the toolbar and, using the two-directional arrow, drag the edge of the toolbar.

Hide or display a toolbar – Click Tools } Customization, click Command bars, and disable or enable the check box next to the toolbar name.

Reset a toolbar to its default setting – Click Tools } Customization, click Command bars, click a toolbar, and click Reset.

[Glenn Sharp]

If Corel 8 is the same as 12 – you should be able to right click on any of the grey areas outside of the drawing page & select toolbox from the drop down menu

I think 😮

It wasn’t really the trainee was it? :lol1:

[Ryan Fairweather]

resetting the toolbars to standard settings will restore the bar at the top of the page but not the vertical selection.

if i look in the toolbax section, they are all there but seems to be no means of restoring them.
if i click on the individual items it simply provides a selection of settings.

[David Rowland]

strange.. Holding the F8 while starting Corel 10,11 & 12 works ok. I guess it was a new feature in 10+.

[Ryan Fairweather]

i owe you a lareg drink matey!! i obviously was not pressing it for long enough earlier.
cheers buddy

i can get my mountain of work done now 😀

[Paul Rollason]

I had something like this happen the other day where my tool box became inverted so the pick tool, insted of being at the top was at the bottom.

I used system restore and went back in time a couple of days and all was well again in the world

Too late I know but just a thought

paul r

[Alan Drury]

When strange things happen in Draw first port of call is F8 on programme launch to go to default workspace. If you have a customised workspace save this first and you can always import it back after F8.
Alan D