Well hello, @melissapiccone !   Try this link: https://www.rockymountaintraining.com/adobe-indesign-rebuilding-preferences-cache/ or follow Eugene's link.    ~Barb ... View more

When you are new to InDesign, it can feel overwhelming. I added a background color to the 6 areas I identified that would most likely change each week.     To cut down the time it takes to lay this out it each week, I would:   1.) Add placeholder frames on the A-Parent page to hold the changeable content (frames 2–5). 2.) Create paragraph styles to format the body text, the heads, the titles with the gray background, the date and the weekly quote. 3.) Edit the date manually on the first page. 4.) Type the remaining 5 sections as 5 separate Word docs and assign paragraph styles as you go. (InDesign can import Word files directly, but not Google docs. If you can't use Word, you will need to save each file as a Word doc.) 5.) Use File > Place to import each individual file into the appropriate placeholder frame on the body pages, and use style mapping on import to map the Word styles to the equivalent InDesign style.    As a new user, this is going take some time to set up and figure out. However, once it's done, you could lay out this document in about 15 minutes or so.   ~Barb ... View more

So why do you need the tiny paragraph? Removing solves the issue. Keeping it—even at 0.1 pt—forces the text the text below to the next baseline, because that's how snapping to the baseline grid works.   ~Barb   ... View more

Sometimes your preferences will corrupt when migrating to a new version. Try rebuilding them: https://www.rockymountaintraining.com/adobe-indesign-rebuilding-preferences-cache/   ~Barb ... View more

One way is to cut/paste the images as inline images on an empty paragraph above each caption.   ~Barb   ... View more

Is it adding the magenta rule to the left? Can you remove it and add the rule to the paragraph underneath?   ~Barb ... View more

Let's start with a few more details:   What OS are you using and what version of InDesign? Does InDesign has rights to write to the the folder were workspaces are saved? (We can tell you where they are saved after you tell us your OS.) Is InDesigned installed locally, or are you accessing it via a VPN? After setting it up, are you choosing Window > Workspace > New Workspace? After saving it, are you exiting InDesign normally with File > Exit or InDesign > Quit InDesign?   ~Barb ... View more

Hi @henningtrollback:   Dotted lines indicate frames on a parent page, solid lines indicate frames on a body page. Text frames snapped to the margin/column guides go underneath and are very hard to see on the page, but visible in the Pages panel.   ~Barb ... View more

And, numbering is most predictable when using threaded frames because then InDesign knows the order and always increments correctly.    ~Barb ... View more

Hi @dublove:   Peter is correct of course, and I marked it for you. But here's my work-around. Keep in mind I know you are trying to automate everything you can so not looking for work-arounds but maybe it will benefit someone else.    InDesign can collect both paragraph styles (always whole paragraphs) and character styles (assigned to a string of words) into the Running Header variable. Since my clients don't want two line headers anyway, I assign a character style that doesn't do anything other than let me pull specific words into the head.     ~Barb ... View more

What steps did you follow when you "already tried to remove the cache"? A complete set of steps is listed here: https://www.rockymountaintraining.com/adobe-indesign-rebuilding-preferences-cache/   It's probably worth a gentle reminder that it's fun to upgrade to the newest version when it is released, but not a good idea to move important work over to it until at least the .1 patch. ~Barb  ... View more

I'm not sure. I think I will have to go into the parent pages to check that.   You can see the applied style on the body pages: either in the ¶ view of Window > Control panel, or Window > Styles > Paragraph styles panel or in the Window > Properties panel.    ~Barb ... View more

Each of these applications is daunting to teach yourself. I get it.  So it sounds like you set up the running header variable to collect the Chapter Titles. Is the chapter number—which us now showing up in the running head—assigned the paragraph style Chapter Title?  ~Barb    ... View more

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And Post-Its!  I find them so helpful when learning keyboard shortcuts. My goal is to memorize them before the glue dries up and they fall off my monitor. 😉   ~Barb  ... View more

To add to @leo.r 's helpful answer:   Find your screenshots By default, screenshots save to your desktop with the name ”Screen Shot [date] at [time].” Instead of waiting for the screenshot to be saved to your desktop, you can drag the thumbnail that appears in the corner of your screen, then drop it in another location. To save a screenshot to the Clipboard instead of your desktop, Control-click the screenshot thumbnail that appears in the corner of your screen, then choose Save to Clipboard from the shortcut menu that appears. Or press Control in addition to the other keys you press to take the screenshot. For example, instead of pressing Shift-Command-3, press Control-Shift-Command-3. —https://support.apple.com/en-us/102646 ... View more

Ok @M.E.310814321c2q:   What on earth are you referring to? Let's break this down...   Running heads Did you define a Running Header variable to pull the Chapter Titles into the running heads automatically? If not, how did you do it?   ~Barb ... View more

Hi @M.E.310814321c2q:   The Running Header variable collects the first occurrence of the referenced paragraph style. If you clicked at the beginning of the Chapter Title, pressed Enter, arrowed up and added the chapter number then it is using the same style as Chapter Title. Change the style name to something different, like Chapter Number.   As for the case, we can format text to appear in all caps but when you collect the text from the source files, it pulls it in as it was originally typed. Select the words chapter 22 in chapter 22 and choose Type > Change Case > Upper Case. Page down to see if that corrects it.    ~Barb ... View more

You might try fully uninstalling it using the Adobe CC Cleaner tool (https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/apps/troubleshoot/diagnostics-repair-tools/run-creative-cloud-cleaner-tool.html). Uninstalling from the desktop app is not a full uninstall.   It's also worth noting that's not a great idea to move important work to a brand new version. It's fun to download the new version to play with it, but you really want to continue working on a stable version until at least the .1 release is available.  ~Barb  ... View more

Also, are you using Layers in this file? A layer can be designated non-printing, and in that case, it won't output to PDF, either.    ~Barb ... View more

Hi @max2025_user__9236:   I know there's a feature request tag associated with posts on this forum, but that is actually meant to be implemented in the future.   For now, your best bet to communicate with the InDesign engineering team is to log your feature requests (and bugs) on the user voice page: https://indesign.uservoice.com/.   This is a user-to-user forum – expert users helping other users figure out the software.   ~Barb ... View more

Unless your colleague used one of the brand new features introduced today, you should be able to convert that file and continue working on it. I do want to say that it's really not a good idea to move to a brand new version on the first day of a release. The first release from any vendor—not just Adobe—tend to be buggy. Waiting to move important work over to a new version really should wait until at least the .1 patch is out.    ~Barb  ... View more

I noticed that after downloading the InDesign 2026 app, it removed the extensions section out of the Window panel. Has this been moved? There's no Window panel so you must mean the Window menu?   Here are screenshots of the Window menu in InDesign 2025, InDesign 2024, InDesign 2023 and InDesign 2022:                 Following up with @Abhishek Rao logic, here is Illustrator's Window menu in 2026.  ~Barb ... View more

As per @leo.r, updates normally roll out regionally but it's odd that the others are there.   Separately, InDesign doesn't offer an update if your system doesn't support it. https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/system-requirements.html   macOS users Support for macOS 12.0 (Monterey) has been discontinued. Installing the 21.x versions on macOS 12.0 or older isn't possible. The 21.x versions of InDesign are not supported on Rosetta. Mac users can continue to use the 21.0 version on Apple silicon and Intel-based Mac. Windows users It is not possible to install the 21.x versions on Intel® 3rd Generation of processors or older (as well as older AMD processors).   ~Barb ... View more

Hi @Brendan24111036dhr9:   We handle the levels in the Table of Contents dialog box. (You did generate the TOC and didn't just type it, and then manually add the bookmarks?)   This is all automated using Layout > Table of Contents. Assuming a yes, please share a screenshot of the Table of Contents dialog box so that we can see your settings.   ~Barb ... View more

Hi @Thomas_Calvin   I can't help with scripting, other than to add the scripting tag to your question, if you think it would be useful. Or maybe it's best to post that final sentence on a new thread.    As for: What I mean is one text flow, not one story. I guess it's probably impossible to separate the two, so I'll probably have to split the story per page as the pages are laid out now; then I'll have to figure out how to export them all as a continuous story. I'm unclear how you are differentiating flow from story. In my (albeit little) brain, a FrameMaker text flow is the exact same thing as an InDesign story, so to me they are synonyms.   What you are asking for is FrameMaker's old (and now deprecated) Freeze Pagination command. Invoking it would make all auto-connected frames in a flow/story disconnected and overset text moved to point pages. For example, edits to a frozen page 35 would be numbered 35.1, 35.2, etc. Unfreezing would reconnect the pages and the page numbers would return to normal. I'm wondering if this need in your documentation stems from use of this feature many years ago.    Fast forward to 2025 and InDesign: you can break each page into into its own story with the SplitStory script that is included in the Application folder. Then you could get an overset error on each edited page that oversets.   Maybe—I haven't used it but this again from a reputable developer—Merge TextFrames would help restore them into a single story at the end. https://ajarproductions.com/blog/2017/07/17/merge-textframes-for-indesign-updated-with-highly-requested-features/.    ~Barb ... View more

Hi @Thomas_Calvin!   I'm confused (but you knew that):   I've decided that having one story per document is too problematic to retain... doesn't reconcile with I still only want one story per document.   Only end of stories can generate overset text messages, so if you want overset errors to appear in the middle of the document, you have to have multiple stories.   I know. I'm not getting it. Can you try one more time?   ~Barb     ... View more

Hi @Muhammad Sattar:   I may need a screen shot. This is my interpretation of your description: you want character style on the bullet, a different character style of the Not this|But this and then regular text? Either I'm missing the point of the question or this is what you are asking for, which is working for me.   ~Barb   ... View more