Hi Victoria,

Appreciate your response as I've never tried to troubleshoot ACAD Mac before—gave me a couple of things to try out.

- I reset the settings back to defaults, but it did not help with the searching or palette display problem.

- I tried a new user account and it too did not resolve any matter.

- I only have a home 'office' and unfortunately don't have another Mac I can try.

My specs are

- 15" MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012)

- CPU 2.7GHz Intel i7

- 16GB RAM

- GPU NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1GB (+ onboard Intel HD 4000)

- VDU 15" Retina display 2880x1440 @ default scaling (looks like 1440x900)

- OSX Yosemite (10.10.5)

Checking the list of certified hardware doesn't seem to list any NVIDIA cards for ACAD 2016 (at the moment?). My card is listed under ACAD 2015 though and it is definitely the NVIDIA GPU being used with ACAD open.

On further investigation, both the materials palette display problem and the materials search issue occurs within ACAD 2015 and 2016. I did find that the palette display issue seems to occur as the list will not reduce in height to show less than 13 materials and as a result is not limited to when it is anchored. With reference to both attached screenshots, these are from ACAD 2015 and 2016 with the search field selected (orange and blue border) with the command line receiving the text entry.

This isn't too critical to address for me (I have Boot Camp with ACAD as well), but if there is anything else I can try it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks