Photoshop CS3 Actions Menu Question

When I click the little arrow on my Actions palette so I can choose an action, I have so many that I cannot see all of them as they go off screen. How can I change this so I can choose from all my actions?
2nd question on all of my things like actions, layer styles, etc. when I open up the Preset Manager to load a new item, it always shows a blank folder, but when you click on the little arrow of any palette you can see that I have a LOT of each item. What can be done about this?
Thank you in advance for your help.

leatherlollipop wrote:
When I click the little arrow on my Actions palette so I can choose an action, I have so many that I cannot see all of them as they go off screen. How can I change this so I can choose from all my actions?
2nd question on all of my things like actions, layer styles, etc. when I open up the Preset Manager to load a new item, it always shows a blank folder, but when you click on the little arrow of any palette you can see that I have a LOT of each item. What can be done about this?
Thank you in advance for your help.
1. Organise your actions into sets, like the ones that come preloaded with the program.
2. Open the Preset Manager and click "Show all Presets" to see them all. Organising these helps too.
3. Read the help files on these topics – it helps!

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