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Thank you both for the advice about using the help menu

I forgot to answer the monitor question. I am not using an external monitor but thanks for the warning.

Once I understood it was the control key on the Mac that was needed rather than the translation of the control key in a windows set up all the appropriate options appeared and after clearing everything I now have a normal default screen. Thank you Ron and Natham

No joy so far. Launching AP with the command depressed did not show a clear user data window. Also I cannot find the Mac command 'Dock all' command in the menus. There is no arrange menu in windows on the Mac version. Presumably another example of how apple software hides items!! No second monitor.

No joy so far. Launching AP with the command depressed did not show a clear user data window. Also I cannot find the Mac command 'Dock all' command in the menus. There is no arrange menu in windows on the Mac version. Presumably another example of how apple software hides items!! No second monitor.

System: Mac M1 (new computer): OS: Sonoma 14. Affinity photo 2.2.1 Opening program fails to show the layers panel. Studio right panel was ticked. I have ticked/ unticked/ reset to default/ tried Tab. I have re-downloaded affinity from the affinity site and of course rebooted the computer a number off times to see if that helps. I have seen advice that the panel has been empty but can found by looking for the icons at the bottom of the panel. These are not present. I have years of experience with affinity on windows and my wife has similar experience on a Mac. Her version of affinity photo operates perfectly on her M1 Mac. Her OS is Ventura 13.5.2 and affinity photo is 2.1.1 Help would be great;y appreciated.