alliegaeta wrote: Just installed AutoCad 2009 - looks vastly different to 2008. I liked the way I had 2008 set up and liked the old favourite of mine, the drop down menus along the top, that most programs still have. I have fiddled about with 2009 and seen the workspaces. As my workspace preference can I still customise the screen to retain the typical drop down menus (file, edit, view, insert, format, etc, I still have a couple of custom toolbars open as well.

 Welcome to CADFORUM.

 In fact we are familarising with AutoCAD 2008 for one year and so new features of ACAD 2009 like us a little bit practic .
But You can customize your toolbars , workspace . menu ect, like as in AutoCAD 2008.
But the more important is How you use AutoCAD in Your ways to drawing.

Thanks roger24865 - can't be any easier than that !