Designer work area went gray, all tool areas gone.

[MdS]

April 29, 2021

Designer 1.9.3 / Mac Mojave 10.14.6

Hi Forum.
I did a search in this forum search bar for this but got no returns, then scanned several pages but nothing close. Apologies if it’s in here somewhere.

While working on a Designer document of mainly text, everything out to the edges of the program’s window suddenly went gray.
There is a dark gray bar along the bottom of the window.
Nothing in any menu showed a solution, and all the options in “Defaults” were grayed out.
- The Designer top menu bar is there. Every menu category  shows a drop down menu as normal.
- All right triangles lead to grayed-out items, including “Defaults." All except “Open Recent.”
- The “File/Open Recent" right triangle shows recent documents, and all can be opened, but there is only the document, and everything outside of it is gray. No tools, etc.
- Other Designer documents open the same way — just the document, nothing around it to do anything with.
- The gray window can be resized with the computer cursor as normal, with or without a document in it.
- The gray window can be moved by the title bar area.
- There were no other programs running at the time.
- Affinity Photo and Publisher open and work fine. They are the most recent updates as well.
- Other software in the machine works fine.

What I have tried so far:
- Closed the document, quit, relaunched Designer. Same.
- Quit Designer, restarted the computer, relaunched Designer. Same.
- Searched the forum. Did not see anything addressing anything like this.

Attached are three screen shots of this.
Thanks for any help.
- MdS

3 attached screenshots:

[iconoclast]

Hi MdS!

I suppose, you pressed the TAB-key. With it, you can blend out all panels of Designer at once. Just press it again.

[MdS]

iconoclast

You supposed right. All is well, and thanks very much!

Cheers,

MdS