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The History sidebar will not go away. How do I get rid of it?

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While deleting history a few day ago, I opened History up as a sidebar on my screen. I can not figure out how to get rid of it. Any ideas?

While deleting history a few day ago, I opened History up as a sidebar on my screen. I can not figure out how to get rid of it. Any ideas?

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Use the X in the upper-right corner of the sidebar.

Or { Ctrl + H }

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Use the X in the upper-right corner of the sidebar.

Or { Ctrl + H }

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Thank you ed-meister

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Thank you ed-meister

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go to View/Sidebar and uncheck History. Thereafter, you can manually open it by keying in Ctrl/H

Modified by stringed