publisher studio panels greyed out

[Silver06]

Hi,

I have just updated to Publisher version 2.2  on my Windows 11 pc and have opened it for the first time.

None of the studio panels will open. The text in the list of studio panels is in greyed except for those with the next arrow and when I click on them, the options are in greyed too. This occurs whether the the panel has a tick to show its supposedly opened or not. These panels will not appear.

I have checked they haven't opened on the other screen or behind any other windows.

It is a bit hard to use when pages, layers, colours, navigation, etc aren't open. I have checked some of the tools and I can insert text and shapes and colour them, so I can use them through the tools.

While writing this I was checking on how I was able to open the character panel before temporarily, and found the solution. As it wasn't something I expected I have continued writing this in case someone else has a similar experience.

The solution was to click on the a symbol for the character style on the context toolbar. As soon as I did all the ticked panels appeared and the list of panel names wasn't greyed out anymore.

I have included a screenshot.

 I hope this helps someone else.

[carl123]

You possibly had "Hide Studio" active

Clicking on the a symbol activates the "Character Panel", which would automatically unhide the studio

 

[Old Bruce]

Further to carl123's advice the "Hide Studio is in the Studio sub-menu Window > Studio > Hide Studio amongst many other things.