can anyone help get my tools back in illustrator please?

[Nicola McIntosh]

hi matt

click window at the top then tools 😀

nik

[valegraphics]

Nik. Cant find anything saying tools ?

Got floating text palette, but nothing else?

Matt

[John Childs]

Matt,

This is for a Mac, and a PC might be slightly different, but….

Window (from the top bar) > Tools. It toggles on and off.

[valegraphics]

Thanks John,

But nothing there saying tools, i have attributes, info, type. But no tools!

Might just re-install and see how it goes from there?

Matt

[John Childs]

Hmmmmm.

There should be a long list of things there. About thirty items you can choose to display or hide.

Try going Window > Workspace > Default

[valegraphics]

Guess what?

Yep. No workspace tab.

Matt

[Martin Kennedy]

Try just hitting the ‘Tab’ key on your keyboard.

Tools and other bits can be hidden by hitting this, so you may have done it by accident. The feature is used to give a better idea of how artwork etc. will look. I found out the hard way myself!

Hope it works

Martin

[John Childs]

quote Martin Kennedy:

Try just hitting the ‘Tab’ key on your keyboard.

Tools and other bits can be hidden by hitting this, so you may have done it by accident. The feature is used to give a better idea of how artwork etc. will look. I found out the hard way myself!

So it does. Well, I never knew that! 😀

Though even with the tools hidden by the tab key I still have all the options visible in the Window menu, so maybe the problem is deeper rooted. 🙁