
The initial view is of the Common category. Switch from one category to another by selecting the
appropriate choice from the category menu (see Figure 3-20).
FIGURE 3-20
You can switch your Insert panel view from menus to tabs and back again when in the Classic workspace.
If you yearn for the good old days pre-CS4, when the Insert panel was an Insert bar,
fear not. From the Workspace switcher, choose Classic to move the Insert panel to its
former position above the Document window. Once the change is made, if you prefer the Insert panel
tab view rather than the menu view, choose Show As Tabs from the bottom of the category menu. To
switch back, right-click and choose Show As Menu, as shown in Figure 3-20.
If the Insert panel is not available when you first start Dreamweaver, you can enable it by choos-
ing Window ➪ Insert, View ➪ Toolbars ➪ Insert, or by pressing the keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+F2
(Command+F2). Likewise, choosing Window ➪ Insert, View ➪ Toolbars ➪ Insert, or the shortcut
again, closes the Insert panel.
The icons in Dreamweaver’s Insert panel are intentionally grayscale in appearance to
keep focus on the Web page under development. When you hover over them with your
cursor, they are highlighted by changing to a colored icon. If you’d prefer to have the icons always
appear in color, right-click (Control+click) and choose Colored Icons from the pop ...