For what it is worth, I have seen this in my office, too. (And, at the request of others, done it myself, too.) I have never been able to figure out why the Properties palette cannot be docked to the left side with Auto-Hide turned off. I just tell people not to do it.
@Anonymous's advice is spot on. If you do not have another Workspace to set current (or do not want to work in that Workspace), open the Customize User Interface dialog (CUI command) and:
The Properties palette should reappear on the screen.
@dbroad wrote:
David,
I wouldn't go so far as to say, "the Properties palette cannot be docked to the left side with Auto-Hide turned off". It disappears on me once in a while but I use it docked on the left most of the time without autohide and with no trouble. When it happens (a few times a year), the mouse can be used to resize it. You just have to recognize its truly collapsed form.
Fair enough. I never dock it myself, so I cannot comment on how often it fails. I did try to dock it in ACA 2016 after seeing your post, and, of course, it worked as expected and docked properly. When previously faced with the issue on a user's machine, it failed every time either of us tried it, and, unfortunately, neither of us noticed the 2-pixel wide docked palette. I have seen the Layer Properties Manager go rogue like that, and did manage to "see"* that I could stretch it out (after trying in vain to resize it in the CUI dialog), so I believe that it is possible in this case. Thanks for the additional information. With any luck, I will remember this should the issue come up again in my office.
* - I did not see it so much as get lucky with a random mouse movement with left click that just happened to catch the proper edge of the palette the first time. Once I realized there was in fact something very, very thin there, I was able to intentionally grab it.
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