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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I have not had any menus disappear in the past 18 months, but while working with FM9 and FM10 while in the translation industry, I did determine one possible cause of problems. I worked on two screens at home, and had some saved/named workspaces that had catalogs or palette on my laptop screen, with main work areas and common menus on my “Cinerama” external monitor.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>When I went on the road and used my laptop, I would usually find all floating palettes and menus would appear over the workspace. If I didn’t revise and save the workspace, when I returned home to two screen, occasionally a pallet would be in “outer space” … not visible.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The best cure that I found was to toggle the FrameMaker window from full screen to smaller, resizable; that always made everything reappear.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>For what it’s worth, I haven’t had any workspace items disappear since I came to work for Adobe 19 months ago, when I was granted a new Lenovo laptop and Windows 7. Personally, (we all experience different things), I had more problems with my older, 2008 laptop running WinXP with all the latest security updates.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#404040'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></b></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#404040'>Maxwell Hoffmann</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#404040'> | Product Evangelist | Adobe | p. 503.336.5952 | c. 503.805.3719 | </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:mhoffman@adobe.com"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>mhoffman@adobe.com</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#404040'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://twitter.com/maxwellhoffmann"><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://twitter.com/maxwellhoffmann</span></i></a></span><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> - </span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/maxwellhoffmann"><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://www.linkedin.com/in/maxwellhoffmann</span></i></a></span><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <a href="blogs.adobe.com/techcomm">blogs.adobe.com/techcomm</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Upcoming webinars <a href="http://adobe.ly/Pbz6xI">http://adobe.ly/Pbz6xI</a> Recorded webinars: <a href="http://adobe.ly/Pbdp0J">http://adobe.ly/Pbdp0J</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Craig Ede<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 27, 2013 2:29 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'Karen Robbins'; 'Framer's List'<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: Disappearing Palette Items<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Reading the manual might help here.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The workspace menu doesn't read "Authoring" unless you have chosen the Authoring workspace environment. That button "name" just shows what you current workspace environment is set to. Mine can be Craig's Custom, Authoring, Design, Review, Structured Authoring, or others.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Your palette items are disappearing because you are closing them. Docking them will retain them, but if you undock them and then close them, they have to reopened to reappear. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Reading the manual will help you understand how they work and what logic drives their functioning.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Craig<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com">framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com</a> <a href="mailto:[mailto:framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com]">[mailto:framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com]</a> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Karen Robbins<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 27, 2013 2:45 PM<br><b>To:</b> Stuart Rogers; <a href="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com">framers@lists.frameusers.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Disappearing Palette Items<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Actually, they disappear IN THE MIDDLE OF WORKING on a single document/book or multiple documents, not just on close! What a sad state of user interface affairs FM has fallen into. :-)<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I now realize that the "workspace menu" everyone keeps referring to is actually the button that reads "Authoring"! <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>And while I can restore most of what I want to be in there, for some reason I can't get Object Properties back there, it only wants to exist as a free-standing window/part of the designer (which also won't move into the docked set). Sigh.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks all,<br>Karen<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>