2007 feature manager design tree

The design tree in 2007 has gotten a rework since 2006. Mine seems to
have a mind of its own. One thats decided that it needs a full 30% screen
width to be happy. If I resize it, close, and reopen the document, its back
to the same overly wide width. Am I just too stupid to see a setting
somewhere, needing to edit a template? Anyone else that can verify the same
behavior?

 

I have not seen that problem here at all. I presume you resize it by
dragging it anywhere along the bar? Have you tried the little "open/close"
triangles - do they work for you?

WT

 

Thanks Wayne. Yes I was dragging the bar at no specific location, which did
resize properly, but would stay session to session. Once I made sure to
drag the bar within the triangles the resizing survived file close/open.
Annoying, but workable.

 

I'm not sure why you are seeing what you are seeing as I can grab the bar
anywhere anytime and it seems to behave properly. I just tried a test with
moving it, closing the model file, closing SW, then reopening that file and
the bar was where I left it.

WT

 

Did just find the cause. Operater 'tardation.

Basically have had two folder locations for templates ( the tutorials
folder, and data folders ). Going from 2006 to 2007 maintained all my
settings ( so I thought ), so folder locations and order of preference were
correct in tools-options-settings-file locations. What did not survive the
transition was the option for File-new-advanced-template folder location
preference.

When I'd edit one template to get the tree size I liked, I'd save it to the
default path ( data folder ), which is where I've always put them. When
hitting file-new it was pulling templates from the tutorial folder even
though the tools-options-file locations settings should have used the ones
in the data folder. Clear as mud?.... Again, ultimately, Carlos Mencia
would refer to me as Dee-Dee-Dee for having let this get by me. I've done
upgrades for 2001-2007 every year. I should have known.

 

Ahh, the old sleight of hand trick, eh? Glad you found the problem - too
bad you weren't in on the "trick."

WT