Hide Palettes

If you’ve worked in Adobe appli­ca­tions for any length of time you prob­a­bly already know that press­ing TAB will hide (and then show) all opened palettes. Hiding all palettes pro­vides an unob­struct­ed view of the doc­u­ment, which is great for pre­sent­ing in-person soft­proofs to clients.

What you may not know is that press­ing SHIFT+TAB will hide all palettes except the Tools palette. This gives you both an unclut­tered view, but also the abil­i­ty to quick­ly change tools and per­form basic tasks.

This trick works not only in InCopy, but all Adobe appli­ca­tions using palette interfaces.