"I'm so glad it worked for you! It was so frustrating and time consuming, so I was hoping that posting that would save someone the aggrav..."

"Ok, then it's prob unique to my laptop set up - oh joy! But in case anyone else experiences this weirdness, this info is here and will ho..."

"I *think* I may have isolated the problem. I dont know if this is a fluke unique to my laptop, or a bug, but.... I think it has to do wit..."

"yes. software is installed locally. I do work remotely, connected via VPN to my work network, but software is local. I did another round ..."

"Thanks. Unfortunately, the problem has come back. It may be one file triggering the issue (as I opened a file i was working on that day,..."

"Fixed it. As I suspected, something in the software config had become corrupt, which was causing the panel to not display correctly. My ..."

"I hope someone out there can help. See attached screen shot. This is how my slide layers panel looks all the time. It is missing (or hid..."