SubscribeFirst of all...Hoorah for the Colts! I'm not wearing black today... : ) On to the techie stuff:
I change my screen resolution around quite often due to the numerous presentations I do. One projector supports one resolution, the next supports something completely different. I'll never forget being in Denmark and completely losing my Tool palette window due to a change in resolution. Being in front of nearly 200 people (in a foreign country to boot) I drew a complete blank and couldn't figure out how to get it back. Since a good portion of my presentation was on the Tool Palette it was imperative I find it! Thank heavens for a very nice soul in the audience who sorted me out and I was able to get back on track (eventually, though I was terribly embarrassed). Hence today's Hip Tip! This is nearly right out of my new book - AutoCAD Professional Tips and Techniques (notice the gratuitous plug here).
AutoCAD Hip tip to recover a lost Window:
The lost windows I am referring to are those dockable windows like that ever-valuable Command prompt (that I still can't live without), tool palette, the Sheet Set Manager (for the five of you out there who use it), Properties, etc. Those of you who are using dual monitors in extended desktop mode may have run into this when you take your notebook with you on the road. AutoCAD remembers the position of your floating window but isn't smart enough to know that you can't see it because it's off the screen! And then there's the mysterious case where your dockable windows might disappear for absolutely no reason at all...(which would be a bad day to bet at the races or walk under a ladder).
Here's the solution - we'll enlist the CUI command here to help us out.
1) After executing the CUI command, expand the Workspaces section in the upper left corner and select the active workspace.
2) Expand the Dockable Windows in the Workspace Contents pane (upper right)
3) Select the missing item from the list
4) Underneath Properties you'll see an Orientation option. Change it to anything other than "Do Not Change" (for obvious reasons).
After existing the CUI command (since the CUI command is so huge you can't see anything on the screen when it's open) you should see your poor lost window and can reposition it to suit your needs!
So there you go! You'll never be lost again (at least your dockable windows won't be!)