Setting Up Your Workspace

Setting Up Your Workspace

Learn about the Adobe Illustrator workspace and how to navigate it.

When to use

To create your preferred workspace. 

Instructions

How to dock/undock and customize a toolbar

• Navigate to the left side of the screen, and select the '...' at the top of the toolbar. 
• Hold and drag the toolbar to a different spot on your screen. 
• Select the two arrows on the upper right side of the toolbar to change it from a single column to two columns. 
• To dock the toolbar, select and hold the line under the two arrows. Drag the toolbar to the left side of the screen. Once a blue bar appears, release the cursor. 

Open a panel and stack them

• Navigate to the Window Menu and choose several panels. 
• Select the top of one panel, and drag it to the bottom of another. Once the blue line appears, release the cursor to connect the panel. 

Create a new custom workspace

• Go to the Window Menu > New Workspace.
• In the New Workspace Panel, type in the name of your workspace. 
• Click 'Ok.'

Hints & tips

• The shortcut to Zoom In/Zoom Out is Command/Ctrl+Plus(+) or Command/Ctrl+Minus(-)
• To fit your artboard to the screen, press Command/Ctrl+0
• Navigate to the Window Menu to see all of the panels available in Illustrator.