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In the last movie, we saw how to change the menus up here and also save our changes so we could switch back and forward from different variations. This time, what we're going to do is look at pretty much the same, but take a look at how to save the customization of your palettes and your menus at the same time. So if I come over here, that I'm going to do is I'm just going to drag all these guys out here. We don't want them docked up here like this, like this one, drag it over here and this one over here. I'll just leave one up here. That's the tables menu. I'm going to sort these out the way I want them. I want the character there. Actually, I don't use that. I'm going to turn it off and I turn off the paragraph, but I want character styles and paragraph styles. Notice that character styles is first, paragraph styles is second. If you want to change that to the other way around, just drag them separate and the last one you put in is always the last one in the group. So I like those ones together, so now I'll just drag them here. Remember, if I have the blue line here, over to the side it will create another column. Underneath it, it will pop them in like this. I like to get all my color ones together. I'll have the gradient here, the color here and the effects, I don't want it. Stroke, I'll definitely want it. And the swatches, I'll want it. Object styles I don'tÉI want it, but I want it somewhere separate. I dragged this down to the bottom, so it has attached itself to this one, but I can drag it away like this. I have to drag it right away, not straight down, or it doesn't like that and we can put it here. Now, what order do I want it in? Swatches I use first, then I use gradient, then I use stroke, then I use color, like this. Drag it over here. And again, with our own little group, drag it down here. Let's open an couple that don't show here. Object and layout, align, I like to use that one a lot. I'll drag it over here. Navigator, don't use that one. Transform, don't use that because the control palette takes care of it and Pathfinder I only use that one occasionally. Lets get another one here. Text wrap, that's one I like to use a lot. I'll just mix it up with a line here and maybe object styles and I'll close that one out. Don't need those ones. Just drag it over here, drop it at the bottom and I'm going to take out a few of the menus, so let's go to edit, menus and we won't bother about the context and panel menus. We'll do the application menu. Let's go to notes. I don't use these. This is really a work group feature. If you're working by yourself, you're not going to use these too much. Now I'm going to turn them all off like that. Click on OK. Notice that notes doesn't disappear, but if I click here, there's nothing there. It just says show all menus or you're not available. Now, when I've got this exactly the way I want it, let's just do one more thing. Let me pull one out, output, separations preview. I want this on the screen, but I want it over here like this and collapsed. I've got everything exactly the way I want it. Now I'm going to save this. I'll go to my window menu and go to workspace. Here I'm going to choose save workspace and we're going to give it a name. I'm just going to call it VTC1 and you've got an option here. Panel locations. That's these items here, dockers as I sometimes refer to them and menu customization. We did both, so I want to save both like this. Click on OK. Now if I close these out and kind of mess things up a little bit by dragging this out like this, I can go to my window menu, workspace, VTC1 and it resets everything there. This is one that I added there, so that one just got in the mix a little bit later than I had assumed.And we can always revert to our original. Window, workspace, default workspace. It gives you this little warning. If you don't want to look at this again, you can always turn it off, so click on OK and now there's the default workspace. Of course, let me go to my notes. They're all there. Window, workspace, VTC1. There it is again. I don't like this one out here, so I can just close it and go window, workspace, save workspace and I'll just overwrite this one, making sure I have both these clicked. Click on OK. It gives me a warning that it already exists and again the notes are all disappeared. I've got everything exactly where I want it. The joy of this is that if you're working on different projects, maybe a graphic-intensive project, you can have just graphic menus, your color palettes, your curves, your pathfinders, et cetera, or if you're working on a text menu, you can organize your palettes so that they're readily available to you and simply switch from one to the other, depending on the project or even the stage of a project. It's so simple. So this is really great and all the palettes and the customization have improved so much, making it really easy in InDesign CS3.