Creative Suite: Reset preferences
05/07/08 18:42 Filed in: Creative suite
From time to time things stop working in InDesign.
Point in case: I was training a group of four people earlier this week and for no apparent reason some of the InDesign tools refused to work properly for one person only.
At times like this the very first thing that I do is close the document and then re-open it. If this doesn't do anything I would then quit the program and relaunch it. If this doesn't work I would then reset InDesign's preferences.
To do this, launch InDesign and then hit Apple-alt-shift-cmd and hold these keys down until a prompt appears asking if you want to reset preferences. More often than not, this will do the trick.
It's a handy thing to know. Especially when it's Friday afternoon and ten minutes before a deadline.
Point in case: I was training a group of four people earlier this week and for no apparent reason some of the InDesign tools refused to work properly for one person only.
At times like this the very first thing that I do is close the document and then re-open it. If this doesn't do anything I would then quit the program and relaunch it. If this doesn't work I would then reset InDesign's preferences.
To do this, launch InDesign and then hit Apple-alt-shift-cmd and hold these keys down until a prompt appears asking if you want to reset preferences. More often than not, this will do the trick.
It's a handy thing to know. Especially when it's Friday afternoon and ten minutes before a deadline.
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