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Screen resize buttons gone and can't move window in Designer v2


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Hi, I recently lost the 3 screen resizing buttons in the top left corner of Designer on the desktop v2. Actually, I've lost the entire top menu of options that are normally available, ie alignment, etc. I also can't move the screen window around the computer screen. I am able to resize by dragging the sides, and the top right corner (but not the left). So I can make it smaller, but I can't actually move it anywhere, it's like it's frozen in place. I've closed the program, opened new documents, and restarted the computer. This loads with every new document. This is not happening in Photo and Publisher. I've been unable to find anyone else online asking this same question. The photos I'm sharing include a full screen shot before resizing the window, and then the window after adjusting the sides around, as an example. I hope this makes sense. I'm stumped. Thank you so much, I greatly appreciate the help. 

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Hi @66caseys and welcome to the forum.

I don't know how to do with macos, but in Windows it helps pressing the TAB key.

Forget my suggested solution. Once again, I didn't read correctly.

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Try Window > Zoom from the top menu bar.

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What has happened is you have hay have right clicked on the Toolbar and chosen Hide Toolbar or done that with the menu View > Show Toolbar and unchecked it. To get it back go to View > Show Toolbar.

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1 hour ago, Old Bruce said:

To get it back go to View > Show Toolbar.

Or, unless you have changed the default keyboard shortcuts, use Option+CMD+T (shown as ⌥⌘T in the View menu) to toggle it back on.

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1 hour ago, 66caseys said:

How on earth did I do that?!

It is possible that the shortcut Shift + H is also responsible for this in the Mac version of the Affinity programs?

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5 hours ago, Komatös said:

It is possible that the shortcut Shift + H is also responsible for this in the Mac version of the Affinity programs?

CMD + Shift +H hides the Studio panel(s) but AFAIK by default Shift + H is not assigned to any shortcut.

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2 minutes ago, R C-R said:

Shift + H is not assigned to any shortcut.

In the Windows version (2.3) from Designer and Photo there is Shift + H assigned to hide Studio, but in Publisher it is CTRL + Shift + H.

Surprisingly, this assignment is completely missing in the current beta of Photo.

 

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8 minutes ago, Komatös said:

In the Windows version (2.3) from Designer and Photo there is Shift + H assigned to hide Studio, but in Publisher it is CTRL + Shift + H.

Surprisingly, this assignment is completely missing in the current beta of Photo.

CMD + Shift + H is used in all 3 Mac apps to hide the Studio(s).

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