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# Build a Shot Launcher-centered layout

On shows where Shot tiles are your primary interaction surface — touch-driven productions, scoreboard segments, any segment where you fire whole layer combinations rather than driving the Project List row by row — arrange the workspace so the Shot Launcher is the panel under your hands.

The Shot Launcher and the Project List are both regular panels. In the standard layouts they sit **tabbed together**, so making one or the other primary is just a matter of arranging panels.

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*(In Captivate 2025 and earlier, this was a separate "Workspace Focus" mode under the View menu. That mode is gone — both panels now coexist, and you arrange them like any other panel.)*
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## Put the Shot Launcher front and center

1. Show the Shot Launcher: press **F9**, click the **Shots** icon on the top bar, or toggle it in the **View** menu.
2. If it’s tabbed with the Project List, drag the **Shot Launcher tab** out of the group and drop it where you want it — the center of your workspace, or split large along one side. Give it room: the tiles scale with the panel.
3. Keep the Project List handy without spending screen space on it:
   * Leave it as the background tab in its group and click its tab (or press **F10**) when you need it, or
   * **Pin** it to a side rail — it collapses out of the layout, and one click reveals it over the workspace when you need to reorder rows.
4. When the arrangement feels right for show time, save it to the **Live** workspace layout — press and hold the **Live** button on the top bar. From then on, switching to **Live** (**Ctrl+2**) recalls your shot-centered arrangement.

Everything about arranging, pinning, and saving layouts is covered in [Customize Captivate’s layout](/get-started/chapter-index-2/customize-your-layout.md).

## Operating with the launcher front and center

* Click a Shot tile to take that Shot on air.
* To edit a Shot, click the **Edit** toggle in the launcher; the Shot Config panel opens for the selected Shot. (If the launcher is empty when you turn on **Edit**, it creates a new empty Shot and opens its config.)
* On busy shows, group the launcher into tabs by design intent or color — see [Create Shot Layouts](/control-your-show/chapter-index-1/creating-shot-layouts.md) for **Group By**.
* Reveal the Project List (**F10**, or its rail icon if pinned) when you need to see or change the underlying graphic order, then tuck it away again.

## Related

* [Create Shot Layouts](/control-your-show/chapter-index-1/creating-shot-layouts.md)
* [Recall Keypad](/control-your-show/chapter-index-1/recall-keypad.md)
* [Customize Captivate’s layout](/get-started/chapter-index-2/customize-your-layout.md)
* [Project List panel](/get-started/chapter-index-2/project-list-panel-and-channel-management.md)


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