Here are the steps that you need to turn off the Contextual Tab States in Vanilla AutoCAD 2015
- Type CUI in the command line and hit enter
- Underneath Quick Access Toolbars is the RIBBON, expand that out
- Expand out Contextual Tab States
- Go right down the bottom and there should be a Tab that says Layout Selected, expand that out
- Click on the Layout underneath that
- Right hand side will show data in it now, go to General>Contexual Display Type
- Contexual Display Type will be set to FULL WITH FOCUS
- Change it to FULL WITHOUT FOCUS
- Click OK and the cui will close.
- Click on the layout tab in the drawing and now the ribbon won’t change to layout. You will have a new tab there Layout but it won’t have changed to that tab
That’s how you turn off the Contextual Tab States for the Layout