Tool Palettes Panel

Customize menu > Customize User Interface > Tool Palettes tab

Right-click on Tool Palettes title bar > Customize

The Tool Palettes panel lets you customize the tool palettes in the Tool Palettes window and create and manage palette groups.

Palette groups are collections of palettes you can group together and reorganize.

Procedures

To create a new palette:

Right-click an empty area in the Palettes window.
Choose New Palette from the right-click menu.

A blank palette is created in the Tool Palettes window. It also appears in the Tool Palettes window when All Palettes are displayed.

To rename a palette:

Right-click on the palette you want to rename.
Choose Rename from the right-click menu.
Enter a new name and press Enter.

The palette name is updated in the Palettes window and in the Tool Palettes window.

To delete a palette from the Palettes window:

Right-click on the palette you want to permanently delete.
Choose Delete from the right-click menu.

The palette is removed from the Tool Palettes window.

To create a new palette group:

Right-click an empty area of the Palette Groups window.
Choose New Group from the right-click menu.

The new palette group is added to the list of palette groups in the Tool Palettes tool palettes title bar right-click menu.

To add a palette to a palette group:

Drag a palette from the Palettes window to a palette group in the Palette Groups window.
When the cursor displays a + sign, release the mouse button.

The palette now displays below the palette group name.

Note: You can drag only one palette at a time.

To remove a palette from a palette group:

Right-click the palette you want to remove.
Choose Remove from the right-click menu.

To create a nested palette group:

In the Palette Groups window, right-click on a palette group.
Choose New Group from the right-click menu.

A new group is created below the palette group you selected.

To make a palette group current in the Tool Palettes window:

In the Palette Groups window, right-click the palette group you want displayed in the Tool Palettes window.
Choose Set Current from the right-click menu.

The palettes in the selected palette group are now available in the Tool Palettes window. The title bar is updated to display the name of the current palette group.

Note: A palette group must contain one or more palettes to be made current.

Interface

Palettes—Lists the palettes in the order in which they appear on the Tool Palettes window.

There are several actions available when you right-click any item in the Palettes window:

Rename—Renames the selected palette.

New Palette—Creates a new blank palette and adds it to the Tool Palettes window.

Delete—Deletes the selected palette from the Tool Palettes window.

Palette Groups—This window displays in a tree view the organization of your tool palettes. You can create user-defined palette groups by dragging palettes from the Palettes windows to a group. By right-clicking on a group, you can export a palette group to an .xpg file as well as import an .xpg file into a palette group.

These are the available options when you right-click any item in the Palette Groups window except for those noted those where right-clicking in an empty space makes an additional option available:

New Group—Creates a new group.

Rename—Allows you to rename a group.

Remove—(right-click on a palette) Allows you to remove the palette from the group.

Delete—Deletes the selected group.

Set Current—Makes the palettes in the selected palette group visible in the Tool Palettes window.