How can I reset the current document's size, arrangement, etc without making a new document?
Document Setup gives me options to alter the Bleed but nothing else. I had a horizontal sheet set up for a template but now I want to switch it to vertical to rough out 2 sheets on a 8.5x11 sheet just for a test print.
How do I change the document's real setup?
what version?
the new artboards in CS5 are brilliant for this.
CS5
Click on edit artboards, from the document setup menu.
YOu can either add a new artboard, or just flop the one you have in the artboard options menu (one of the new buttons in the top toolbar when you are in the artboards).
Yeah I was kind of lost in a loop there (I was PMing ari for help). Here's where I get confused with Adobe.
Document Setup | Edit Artboards is not the same as Show Artboards!!! So Artboards in one case is not the same as Artboards in another. ARGH. If you choose Edit Artboards, you can't get back to the regular view except with the arrow tool. There is no menu option to get back. That's where I was lost in the loop because Show/Hide Artboard was grayed out.
ok, but to get back to this issue, in AI now, you are no longer working on a Document but are working on an Artboard in a Document? That was their best attempt at multi-page documents?
alright so double-click the Artboard Icon on the Artboard's panel? got it......thanks.
That was their best attempt at multi-page documents indeed.
I would have hoped for full multi-page pdf support, at least. Ah well.
ok new one.......
How come I can't just click on a full fill Swatch to get rid of a gradient?
How do I just get back to a clean fill of something that has a gradient on it? Gradients in Illustrator suck.
It depends on the type of gradient. A regular gradient, you should be able to just select the new color and swap... a gradient mesh, is another beast.
thanks r_d. I figured out one piece someone else drew made it a gradient mesh. I used a logo on an icon I was drawing and exporting to FXG. What a headache. My gradients went to FXG fine but I couldn't figure this one out.
So how do I convert a gradient mesh to a gradient?
You don't. Sorry. But you can right click on it and hit isolate mesh, then click on your swatch, and that should make the whole thing solid.
The mesh is still there but at least it is all one color, I don't know of a quick and easy way to kill it. Or to revert to a general gradient without remaking the object.
Figured. What it does in Flash is that it comes in as raster with clipping paths so it defeats the purpose of a vector gradient. Sometimes I think Adobe smokes crack. 
Thanks for the help. We're PNGing a lot of icons right now. I want to go FXG for them to scale icons as 16, 32, or 64 from one file but alternate PNGs are ok for now.