Missing Panels in Illustrator | How to Get Everything Back

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Are you missing panels, toolbars, or can't get your workspace to load correctly? Here's how to get everything back quickly and easily. If all of your toolbars and windows aren't opening up when you load illustrator, there are a couple of things that might be going on. First, you may just need to hit the tab key. Tab will turn on/off your toolbars and side windows to allow you to see more of your artboard. Also, the F key allows you to toggle full screen mode on and off - there are 3 settings for this, so cycle through them to pick your preference. Lastly, if none of that works, you probably need to reset your preferences by closing Illustrator and opening it again while holding Shift, Control, and Alt. This should clear out anything that's causing an issue, typically from a recent software update, but you'll have to go into your preferences and readjust them.

Let me know if this was a helpful troubleshooting tutorial in the comments below




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Which method helped you get your toolbars or panels back?

CaryHawkins
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Not even a minute in and you solved the most annoying problem in Illustrator. Thank you so much.

matthewandrade
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Thank you. Fortunately my toolbar was the only thing missing on the left side of the screen for whatever reason after an update. For those that still have the properties panel intact on the right side, but you are missing the toolbar on the left, simply select Window>Toolbars>Advanced

espedale
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Omg, thank you so much. I inadvertently hit tab and had no idea why everything disappeared. Thanks so much for posting this! 🥰

susansakka
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Thank you so much! my cat took a little walk all over my laptop and you saved the day

majajankovic
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my properties lost from top toolbar in indesign. I changed all the workspaces but properties appears right side only. Nothing comes top toolbar

sporteechannel
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when i click "file info" the window doesn't pop up. I use dual screen and sometimes take my laptop with me but the window is lost somewhere in another screen. I tried even hooking up 3 screens and that window is nowhere to be found. I can't click anything afterwards so I'm forced to force quit the program. ugh.

watchanime
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You just saved me a ton of frustration, thank you. I only had the right panel missing, but F did the trick.

katarina
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My issue has been restoring the draw inside icon. I have draw behind draw normal and draw behind. The draw inside was working with my very first projects but is no longer active.

pastorbettygrant
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Hi Cary. I am not even showing the tool bar at the top that shows "file, edit, Can you help? Thanks

daphnetelem
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hello i am new and i cant find the pencil tool i keep watching videos but cant find it at all

rukiichi
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Oh my god, I clicked so many articles and tutorials that had no answer. It turns out I accidently hit "F" while doing a bunch of "CTRL F" work.

EC_Nattfodd
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Thank You, I highly appreciate this "new" trick; I'm unfortunately new to this and along with being college student and majoring in 'Graphic Design'. So the overall is that I'm pretty new to the illustrator application and these hotkeys and tools.

xNightOwlGamingx
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It worked! Thanks 😊 i was frustrated yesterday... btw, if Alt Shift Ctrl doesn’t work, try to hold them longer, hold them until AI open!

vanessad.graphicdesigner
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I thought I was going crazy until I followed your suggestion to hit the "F" key. Thanks!

rowbyrowby
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You absolute legend, thank you so much for this, it really helped me more than you know. Most appreciated.

TheLondonForever
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My properties panel is missing how can i fix that

Notvelociraptort
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thank you so much sir you save my day, best of luck for more.

ItsAneesAndEhsaan
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You're a life saver! Thanks for posting!

KalibratedKreations
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Can you tell me how to make the advanced tool bar to stay permanently? Because everytime I open Ai it keep going back to basic toolbar and I had to change it again and again

NexusMerbok