You can display the tool palette set while retaining a view to the drawing underneath by applying transparency to the tool palette set.
Tool palette set with transparency
Note: Transparency is not available if the palette is docked or hardware acceleration is enabled.
To adjust the transparency of the tool palette set
- On the title bar of the tool palette set, click
(Properties), and then click Transparency. - In the Transparency dialog box, adjust the transparency.
If you want to… then… increase the transparency drag the slider to the right. decrease the transparency drag the slider to the left. turn off transparency select Turn off window transparency.