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The Control panel, which is a context sensitive set of options, lives right under the Menu bar and above your document. And it will change based on what you have selected, because it's smart enough to know what you want to work with. I'm going to show you a demonstration based on the old fashioned way of working. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to change the fill and the stroke of this circle. Now what I would do back in the day is since the stroke icon is in a foreground and I want to change my fill, I'd have to hit X on my keyboard, and now I have the fill in front. So when I click on the swatch and I choose to change my color, that is what I'm working with. Now to get back to the stroke I hit X again to bring the stroke icon to the front, so now I'm working on the stroke color and I can change that to something else. Now when I want to change the size of the stroke or the width of this line, I have to click on the Stroke panel and then change the width here. Now let's do the same thing using the Control panel. So I'm going to go ahead and collapse that. Now if I want to change the size of the stroke I can go right here and choose a weight. I can change the color by clicking right here, and I can change the fill by clicking right here. And that takes a lot less time than opening and closing panels, even if you do keep them open, and pressing X on the keyboard. So it's context sensitive and it knows what you need to work with. There are also other options up here such as the ability to change your brush, the style you're working with, the opacity, and more. And I say more because, once again, if I choose something else, in this case Type, the options change. So I can change the character, which is the font that I'm working with. So I'll go ahead and choose something like Adobe Jenson Pro, and then what I can do is choose a style, so I'll go ahead and choose bold. And if I want to change the style I can use this dropdown to bold italic. I can change the size and everything from here. And when I'm finished with that and I want to work with the paragraph formatting, I can choose to align it in several different ways. So I can align left, center, right, and justify. And if I choose yet again something else, for example a dotted line or anything else they might want to put transparency on, then I can grab that object and then I can change the opacity of it. If I want to align objects I can, for example, create a couple of objects here, and then I can select those objects, and then I can choose the align tools or the transform tools. So the Control panel is going to be a one stop shop for you to go to time and time again, as opposed to opening and closing panels if that's what you do when you have a smaller monitor. You can likewise keep the panels that you work with open and keep them on your screen at all times in their own dock if you want to as well. So I'm in Icon view. But since the Control panel knows what I want to do, and 9 times out of 10 I do want to change the fill or the stroke or the type, I can do everything right from here and work more efficiently than ever before in Illustrator CS3.