@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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