Shelves are like the palettes, except you control the tools’ options and their
position on the shelves. You use shelves to organize all your commonly used
tools.
Marking menus appear at the current mouse location. They provide a very
fast method to choose the tools you use most often (such as Pick > Object ).
Hotkeys are special key combinations that perform common menu or tool
commands.
Creating Custom Shelves
To show and hide the shelf window
1 On the Windows menu, choose Shelves.
The Shelves window appears.
■ The Shelves window provides a floating window in which to keep
commonly used tools.
Alias, however, provides another, even more convenient location for
shelves. In these tutorials, you will use the shelf area in the control
panel.
■ Since you will not be using the Shelves window, you can close it.
2 Choose Windows > Shelves again to hide the Shelves window, or click
the Shelves window’s close button.
To help demonstrate how to make new shelves, clear the default shelves and
make new shelves specific to these tutorials.
Before you clear the default shelves, save them, so you can retrieve them later.
To save the initial shelf set
1 Choose Windows > Control Panel. The control panel appears.
2 Hold the left mouse button on the Shelf menu button at the top of the
control panel’s shelf area to open the options menu.
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