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014 Trashing the application preferences to solve weird behaviors

014 Trashing the application preferences to solve weird behaviors - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

014 Trashing the application preferences to solve weird behaviors

David Blatner: Have you ever launched InDesign and found a whole panel is just blank or maybe it has no buttons in it or some other really weird problem affecting the program? Well the first thing that you should do is quit and restart InDesign. But if that doesn't clear up your problem, the solution is almost always do we build your preferences files. Let me show you two ways to do that. First, I'll quit out of InDesign. I don't need to save this particular file and I'm going to re-launch InDesign. In this case I am going to do that by just double-clicking on the application file here in this folder and as soon as I launch it, I'm going to hold down all my modifier keys on the keyboard. That means on the Mac I hold down Command, Option, Control, and Shift and on Windows I would hold down Ctrl, Alt and Shift. Hold them all down immediately after launching the program. And if you hold it down fast enough you will see this dialog box appear. Do you want to delete the InDesign Preference…

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