The area on the right is used to make panels easy to access.

(the button with three dots) under all of the tools and controls. The hidden tools can be found under Edit Toolbar. It can be customized to hide controls and tools can be added or removed from the bar. The toolbar on the left contains all of the drawing tools and controls for Fill and Stroke, Coloring, Draw Mode, and Screen Mode. This is where illustrations will be visualized. The artboard is the white rectangle placed in the center of the program. Next, go to Workspace, then ensure Essentials is selected before clicking Reset Essentials. If you would like to reset to the default interface as described below, you can go to Window using the Menu. Your workspace may look different than the default described below depending on whether you have used Illustrator on your computer before. The tools and functions are always available, but they can be displayed for easy access in your workspace to speed up your work. The interface is used by you, the user, to communicate to the computer what you would like to see through a given set of tools and functions. The program should have opened the document in a new workspace and different interface.

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