Can't "unfloat" floating toolbar

[Jimi King]

I accidentally pulled the toolbar off the lefthand side and now I can't put it back. I can dock it at the top but not on the side. I've tried with the Alt key and without. No joy. This is on XDP 11 BTW.

[Boy]

You can reset the UI by going to Window/Control bars and clicking the 'Reset' button. By doing so you will lose any customized settings and will have to reconfigure them.

[Jimi King]

Yes I was hoping to avoid having to do that as I'd just finished customising everything. I searched on this before posting and found one from someone back in 2007 with the same problem. Have they really just not bothered to fix this?

[Egg Bramhill]

Works fine for me Jimi. Just drag it to the side & it docks on the side.

[Jimi King]

God knows I tried Egg. It just occurred to me that it might have something to do with the fact that I don't use the Xara UI, so I did a Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S and it reset the lot anyway so looks like my next hour or so is going to be spent redoing it all.

[Egg Bramhill]

Oh dear!

[Barbara B]

Hi Jim,

If you hold the mouse on the floating toolbar, you should see a dotted outline of it. Drag it over the VERTICAL ruler, and then let go. This is a problem in Xara with the tool icons, too. you have to drop OVER, not near or next to. Hope this helps.

[Barbara B]

POhoto cippiing? Your method also resets ALL customizations you've made, such as any tools or commands you've put on bars.

Seems like a counter-productive thing to me.

What version of Xara do you use?

[Jimi King]

I'll give that a try if it happens again Barbara, although I'm pretty sure I dropped it over. I tried so many times I must have. It's probably my fancy Windows skins that caused the problem. In the end I switched to the Xara UI and back again. As you say I had to customise my toolbar again, but in reality it took less time than searching here and posting my original question.