Closing and opening symbols and palettes

Palettes are used to store multiple symbols, and symbols are made up using objects and symbols from one or more palettes. You can open and close symbols and palettes independently.
You can close a palette in either of two ways:
  1. Right-click the palette header in the Symbol Palettes pane, then click Close Palette on the pop-up menu.
  2. Select the palette in the Symbol Palettes pane, then choose Palette>Close Palette from the menu bar.
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    Closing a palette
Note
Although the palette is closed, the opened symbols remain open.
You can close a symbol in either of two ways:
  1. Click File > Close.
  2. Press Ctrl+F4.
To open a symbol and palette:
  1. Open the Open Symbol dialog box in one of the following ways:
    1. In the menu bar, click File > Open.
    2. In the toolbar, click Open an Existing Symbol.
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      The Open an Existing Symbol button
    3. On the keyboard, press Ctrl+O.
  2. Click Browse.
  3. Select bampalette.jar.
  4. Click Open.
  5. Select the basicprogressbar in the progressbars category.
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    The Open Symbol dialog box
  6. Click Open.
The basicprogressbar symbol opens in a new tab in the Symbol Editor drawing pane and the bampalette pallette opens in the Symbol Palettes pane.
Note
To open a symbol from a palette that is open in the Symbol Palettes pane, double-click the symbol.