default audio spectrogram

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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I am using Windows 7 and Audacity 2.1.3. On opening Audacity the window that opens has a white center bounded below and above with grey areas. The center whit area limit is +/- 5 db. A signal louder that that extends into the gray areas. This is fine for recording but I cannot use it for editing.

How do I restore the default window which opened in all previous versions of Audacity?

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It sounds as if you may have inadvertently selected the “Multi-tool”.
The quickest way back to the normal “Selection tool” is to press F1 or click the “Selection tool” button.
See: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tools_toolbar.html