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I know that the Help instructions are preliminary, but there appears to be a discrepancy.   The instructions say "As a useful visual aid, symbols are indicated by an vertical orange bar on their layer entries in the Layers panel.  If a symbolized object has been edited when unsynchronized a dashed orange bar is shown instead."    I am using a MAC Sierra, Retina display.   I have attached a screen shot of my Layers panel when I was working with the Symbols panel.    The orange bar seems to be missing.   Tiny little detail.   Publisher is so exceptional!!1498428346_ScreenShot2018-11-11at2_15_33PM.png.6c0b1cea101be6a36814d4867273fb86.png    


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3 minutes ago, αℓƒяє∂ said:

You have grey bars where I would expect to see the orange ones.

Yep.   Trying to be diplomatic.


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You seem to have groups showing (or, at least, complex objects with nesting of some kind), which may make a difference. What do you see if you expand them?

Also, if you have Designer installed, is this consistent with what you see there?

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Hi jmwellborn

This is due to being in Light UI, Our current apps exhibit the same behaviour. On Windows the orange is kept in light UI but can be slightly more difficult to see. As light UI was made on Mac first,, I image i is windows that need updating here

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Thank 

6 hours ago, Chris_K said:

Hi jmwellborn

This is due to being in Light UI, Our current apps exhibit the same behaviour. On Windows the orange is kept in light UI but can be slightly more difficult to see. As light UI was made on Mac first,, I image i is windows that need updating here

Cheers

Thank you so much.   I really love the Symbols Panel!    Also Light UI!!    Doesn’t matter at all whether the bars are gray or orange.    What matters is the way all the images can be edited in one swoop.   When the HELP team gets to that point in their documentation, they could possibly state something to the effect that “either a vertical gray or an orange bar, depending upon the user’s operating system.”    That would help us “reading learners” as we discover the many extraordinary possibilities with Publisher.   Thank you again!!


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,  Ventura 13.6.   Publisher, Photo, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.1.1.  
 iPad Pro 12.9 2020 (4th Gen. IOS 16.6.1); Apple pencil.  
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