HELP !!!`

[Pepperdog2]

I am new to AD and while working on the tutorials, it went to full screen - no toolbar, no context toolbar, no tools panel, just a blank screen. The menu bar was there, so I managed to get most of the items back, except for the toolbar and context toolbar. I am left with this on the top of the screen:

The personnas are not selectable and none of the others are either. I read that the toolbars could be modified and/or fixed with View / Customize Toolbar, but that option is grayed out and is not accessible as below:

I went to the install file, and tried the option to repair. It went through the program, but I'm still left with this. Should I use the install file to uninstall the program and then again to re-install?

I don't know if I pressed a wrong key combination while working or how it happened, but this is what I have now.

Please help.

 

 

Edited January 27, 2018 by Pepperdog2
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[Gear maker]

Pepperdog, go to the View>Studio.  There you can turn on and off the panels by clicking your desires.  If they are checked but grayed out then it was probably a shift + ctrl + H that hid the studio.  Another shift + ctrl + H will unhide them.

 

If this doesn't work try toggling the Full screen Window>Toggle Full Screen.

 

Hope that helps.

[Pepperdog2]

Tried that, and I didn't see anything of use. The main problem is with the context toolbar. Nothing under View>Studio is grayed out. The grayed out areas are View>Customize Toolbar and View>Customize Tools. The Shift+Ctrl+H turned off the Panel on the right with the layers, Color wheel, et. al., but didn't have any effect on the context toolbar. I added the current settings of the Studio and the grayed out areas to the previous post. Still can't access anything on the top toolbars or context toolbar.

[R C-R]

The dashed rectangular shapes in the Toolbar suggest to me that you are already in the "Customize Toolbar" mode, at least if you were using the Mac version. I don't have a computer running Windows so I can only guess about it, but there must be some way to exit that mode that does not involve using the View menu, like maybe right-clicking in the Toolbar area & looking for an appropriate popup menu choice, or maybe just tapping the Escape or Return key on the keyboard.

[Pepperdog2]

Tried a right click, nothing pops up. Escape and Return didn't do anything either.

[dutchshader]

Did you try the TAB key

[Pepperdog2]

TAB turns everything off and back on again. Same issue with the toolbars

[dutchshader]

Did you try a restart with ctrl pressed, that way the program can be reset

[Pepperdog2]

Holy Cow! That seems to have worked. How the heck did you find that starting with the control key would do that?

Thank You !

[dutchshader]

Glad i could help, learned this  by reading posts in this forum