Missing Panels in Illustrator | How to Get Everything Back

Which method helped you get your toolbars or panels back?

F button for me, thanks.

Thanks...... 👍🏻

Mine was going to windows and clicking toolbar then advance and they came out..but grate video

TYSM!! <3

Very helpful

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

Thank you

It's only true pain when this happens to a administration locked school computer

Thnx bro 💖

THANK YOU BROTHER FOR THE ASSIST.

my alighn tool not working

JUST TELL US

it still doesn't work for me

plz tell me i lost my layers tool how to get it backk plzz hellpppp

You r a life saver

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

a huge thank brother.

Hello Cary, thank you for the video.

My “Adobe Master Collection CS6” is missing the “Toolbars” option at the “Windows” pulldown menu (only “Tools” is there).
Also, the ‘three dotes’, at the bottom of the Tools Menu bar do not exist.

Please advise

Thanks a lot!!

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

Thank you very much for your help!

I love you. You absolute ducking legend

OMG you are my hero🤣🤣

Thanks for posting! and lots of thanks

thank you for you tutorial bt you did not mention how to find the right side essential part Hide/visible

Thank you Mr. Cary. You are a life saver. I was afraid I was going to have to reset my prefs because it was farting around. Ended up I had to reset prefs. Eff windows man. I'm getting annoyed and can't wait till I can scrounge up the dough to gladly pay the apple tax so I can go back to now having to fiddle with anything. Not too much of a mac fanboy, just love it if I can save time. Thank you again.

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 The draw inside was working with my very first projects but is no longer active.

Thx thx thx !

very nice problem solved

Hi Cary, 'Ctrl/Shift/Alt' didn't work and neither did 'tabs' or the 'F' button, however, I now know that's what the 'F' button does. What worked for me was having done all you suggested I set up the layout the way I like, saved and then closed and opened it up again and all of a suggestion a new predefined layout appeared with elements I didn't know existed. I think this is an Adobe Illustrator action that wants you see how your layouts can look. I made some minor adjustments and now all works well...Thank you for post anyway...

Dude, you do have tool bars!!!!! I have absolutely nothing just a grey blank page!!

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

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

thanks

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

Did not work. I think this is just the default setup of the latest Adobe illustrator. I guess they're trying to make it more "tablet friendly".

So rusty with illustrator now. For the life of me I could not get long skinny art board menu at the top of the page visible where you can change the size etc. My workspace drop down isn't visible like yours so I did a search and found it. Essentials was checked and once I selected the essentials classic the art board menu showed up. Still can't view the drop down but I'm happy I have other menu visible now. You gave me a good start. Thank you.

You're a life saver! Thanks for posting!

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.

Thank you so so much. Shift-Ctrl-Alt was the answer for me!

I closed my toolbox and I don’t know where to find it

get to the point, balh balh balh OMG.... and still didn't question.

Love you man thank you

it didnt work for me it doesnt do anything helpp

i dont have the panel at the top, what is it called? how do i set it up?

You saved me bro.Thanks.I was missing Anchor point tool but when i change to Essentials classic it got fixed thanks again

THANK YOU!

I accidentally clicked the x on the toolbar on the left.....I can't seem to get it back....I already tried resetting the preferences