New to Vegas from Prem pro .......is the any way to put the trimmer window next to the output window so they are both together and not floating .
Yes you can. Just undock the trimmer window and the redock it as a separate dock. Look in the help file for docking windows.
Help article: "Window Docking Area and Floating Window Docks"
Found it and its all good ....thank you
Help article: "Window Docking Area and Floating Window Docks"
Sorry to jump in on this related thread. I can't find the search window on this site to search for this quoted article. Instead of reading a help article, can you please just tell me how to undock the Trimmer window? I know you are supposed to grab it by a tab, or in a certain area of the window, but everywhere I click and drag, nothing moves. I cannot find this special location on the window. I accidentally stuck the Trimmer window up here in the top left when it was floating, screen cap, (having freed it previously, but not quite knowing how). I'm trapped in this layout now. This is a very counter-intuitional function. I've Googled many times. :/ I'm a touch frustrated because my work has come to a halt.
screen cap: https://ibb.co/D8rFz6J
I've "solved" this problem through lots of Google searches in years past, but I've now forgotten again. It would be really great if one didn't have to research the move. Where exactly does one grab the window to drag it from its docked position? Where is, or what is, the "window tab" (that I've seen mentioned elsewhere)? I know that if you are very familiar with this function this seems like the most obvious thing in the world, but it really isn't.
@Kevin-vonDuuglas-Ittu ... Did you refer to Vegas Pro's user manual ('Contents and Index' under the Help menu). Under 'The VEGAS Pro Window' chapter, there's an entire section on window docking and floating windows. There was a change in the process some years ago, but in Vegas Pro 17 (assuming that your still using VP17 as per your previous forum post), the user manual advises that the window's name tab has to be moved with the CTRL key held down. That changed at some point with later Vegas Pro versions where the CTRL key was no longer necessary to undock a window, so the Google searches you made may have described the process that applied to later Vegas Pro versions.
With the new docking procedure, the default setting requires the CTRL key to be used to dock a window to a new position - but this can be changed in Options/Preferences/General to eliminate the need for the CTRL key to be used for docking as used to be the case before the change in the docking process.
Where is, or what is, the "window tab"
The user manual refers to tabs (a common computing term) as 'name tabs':
Another example is Options/Preferences - all the different choices available in the top area of the Preferences menu are usually described as being tabs.