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Show, hide, and resize Dabble's panels

The panels around your page are there when you need them and in the way when you don’t. Naming a chapter? You want the navigation panel. Chasing a sentence across a hard scene? You want the page and nothing else.

Dabble lets you clear the room to taste, one panel at a time, and set the sidebars to the width that suits you.

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Open View Options

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Every panel toggle lives in one place.

  1. In the header, click the View Options icon (the eye).
  2. The menu lists what you can show or hide. A checkmark means it’s on.

The View Options menu open, listing panel toggles (Navigation, Addons, Status Bar, Auto-Hide Toolbar, Focus Mode) and writing helpers like Comments and Sticky Notes, each with a checkmark when on and its keyboard shortcut.

Show or hide a panel

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Click any item in View Options to flip it on or off. The main ones:

  • Navigation shows the left sidebar with your books, chapters, and scenes. Shortcut: Cmd+Opt+N (Ctrl+Alt+N).
  • Addons shows the right sidebar with your tools, like comments and notes. Shortcut: Cmd+Opt+A (Ctrl+Alt+A).
  • Status Bar shows the word-count bar along the bottom. Shortcut: Cmd+Opt+S (Ctrl+Alt+S).
  • Auto-Hide Toolbar tucks the formatting toolbar away until you reach for the top of the editor. Shortcut: Cmd+Opt+T (Ctrl+Alt+T).

The same menu also holds writing helpers like Spell Check, Grammar, Comments, and Sticky Notes. Toggling a panel here never touches your writing. It just changes what’s on screen.

Resize a sidebar

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Both sidebars drag to the width you want.

  1. Hover the inner edge of the Navigation panel or the Addons panel until the cursor turns into a resize arrow.
  2. Drag left or right to set the width, then let go.

Give your outline room to breathe, or shrink a sidebar to hand more of the screen to the page.

Clear everything at once

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Want the whole workspace gone in one move? Turn on Focus Mode (Cmd+Opt+M, or Ctrl+Alt+M). It hides the panels, header, and chrome all at once, leaving just you and the page. Press Esc to bring it all back.

For the full rundown, see Focus features.

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