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If you drop the tab onto a pin, it is inserted after the pin’s tab. If you drop the tab onto a tab, it is
inserted before the pin’s tab provided you released the hand icon on the left half of the tab; otherwise,
it will be inserted after the tab. You can use the icon palettes as tabs as well.
Converting tabs to windows
To convert a window displayed as a tab to a freestanding window, drag the tab’s pin slightly to the
left and release the mouse button.
Here the Object manager is being undocked. The undocked Object manager.
Icon Palettes
An undocked palette is a window in its own right. For example, it can contain
several icon palettes and windows. This is especially useful if you are using
more than one monitor.
Icon palettes, also known as toolbars, may contain any command that can be selected from a menu.
Commands in palettes can be displayed as icons, text or as icons and text. Icon palettes help you to
reach important commands quickly. You can edit the existing palettes and you can create new palettes
and dock them into the layout.
Commands for saving, loading and changing the appearance of icon palettes are available from the
icon palette’s context menu. To access the icon palette’s context menu, right-click (Windows) or
Command-click (Mac OS) on the icon palette.