rsnowman, I did as you suggested, went to the windows and selected dockers/symbol... and both the object manager and symbols/spec char came up as partial windows. Object Mgr on top about 2/3 and special characters on bottom about 1/3 of viewable area, not including the menu/tool bars at the top.
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