I use the command mgr but i have docked it over along the right side. I like it much more than having tons of bars open. Has anyone noticed that once in a while a category will not be available or even show up in a grayed out scenerio? For example: I have 2 dwg's, lh and rh versions of a simple sheet metal part as paint is added. In part "A" i was reving the drawing and adding a balloon. The annotations catagory was available and that is how I launched the balloon command. In part "B" again, I was reving the drawing and adding a balloon. The annotations catagory was not available nor even grayed out so I had to resort to the pulldown menu Insert>Annotation...etc.. Any ideas why it would be doing this? The same template was used to create the drawings. TIA