Show All Menu Items - On all the time

[L...@adobeforums.com]

I must be missing something because I'm sure Adobe would make a way to keep this feature on all the time. But I've been through the preferences and can't find it. Maybe someone can help me.

How can I make Photoshop CS4 Show All Menu Items - All the time. It slows me down and sometimes frustrates me having to keep clicking on this each time I need the full menu.

[Ann_She...@adobeforums.com]

Linda:

You just need to choose Window/Workspace/Essentials(Default)
before setting up your own Workspace.

[Why that couldn't simply have been labelled in straight-forward English as: "Show Complete Menus" is beyond my comprehension!]

8/

[L...@adobeforums.com]

You just need to choose Window/Workspace/Essentials(Default) before setting
up your own Workspace.

Hi Ann, Once again you've saved some of my sanity. You know I need all I can get. :-) Thank you!

[Buko]

Why that couldn't simply have been labelled in straight-forward English
as: "Show Complete Menus" is beyond my comprehension!

Well Ann this is professional software, you can't use simple language like that or like "show all menu items" that would be too simple.

[Nini Tjäder]

I agree. "Essentials" to me sounds like "only show the basic menus and nothing else"....which makes you not choose it when out looking for all menus. On the other hand, English is not my first language.

[Buko]

Nothing wrong with your assessment of the situation Nini. That's exactly how it sounds to us english and american speakers too.

[L...@adobeforums.com]

I agree with thee three! :-)

[Ramón_G_Castañeda@adobeforums.com]

On the other hand, English is not my first language.

Neither is mine, Nini. But to me "essentials" sounds like stripped down, barely functional, emasculated, as in Photoshop "Elements", too.

[Nini Tjäder]

Ramón,
Exactly.

[steve_g...@adobeforums.com]

Workspaces contain more than just the menus to display. If you just want to control just the menu items, go to Window> Workspace> Keyboard Shortcuts and Menus... Here you can choose 'Photoshop Defaults' from the Set: pull down on the Menus tab.

'Essentials' is used Suite wide and may make more sense in some of the other products. Unfortunately, Ps was burdened with 'Essentials' and 'Basic' (effectively antonyms) in the process.

[Buko]

We'll forgive you guys this time Steve. B)

[Ann_She...@adobeforums.com]

But ONLY this time!

Just don't let MM wag the dog next time!

:)

[L...@adobeforums.com]

Thank you Steve.

[Nini Tjäder]

Essentials - as a term - doesn't make any more sense in the other products than it does here. And I said as much at the time in other contexts but was rather alone with that opinion.