In addition to the other suggestions, empty panels can be caused by corrupt cache files.  See Reset InDesign Preferences and Other Troubleshooting for directions on clearing caches, and for replacing the InDesignSavedData file. ... View more

Please start a new thread, and provide complete details... ... View more

Your answers to my questions are unclear. Were you able to do the exports I asked about successfully? You say you reverted to an earlier version. What changes had you made since then up to the point where export failed? Any on the spread metioned in the error message? ... View more

Have you examined page 42? Are you able to export that page alone? Can you export pages 1-41? 43-? ... View more

Impossible to say with the information provided. Poaring the page as a .indd file would be helpful. ... View more

My instinct is this is not the way to go, if for no other reason than you need maintain control over page numbering for each individual book. ... View more

If the font is available, try installing it on your system with InDesign closed. If the document was open when the power failed there may be some corruption, as well, and it might help to run the blind  open and export to .idml script: Blind open and IDML-export  If the script runs successfully, try opeing the .idml file it produced and save as a new .indd. ... View more

And have you tried resetting the prefs? ... View more

Ah, yes. Webroot. ... View more

If the flattener setttings are grayed out you aren't flattening the transparency, so perhaps that wasn't the problem initially after all. Of the other settings you mentioned, optimize for fast web view would be, I think, the most likely culprit, and there's no good reason to check it for a document meant for print. ... View more

And if that still doesn't work you probably need to reset the prefs (especially if you tried to migrate prefs when updating). ... View more

Try pressing the keys before clicking the mouse. ... View more

Can you show us the grid lines? It looks to me like the grid spacing might be half the leading value and and the columns are using alternate lines when one has large text and one does not.   ... View more

There is a differnce, though, in the two examples. In the split column your first column has both large and small text on the first line, but only small text on the first line of the second column. In the second example both collumns have both large and small text on the first line. Are you using align to grid?  I suyspect waht you are seeing is the result of using a first baseline setting that is other than a fixed value (i.e. one of the choices related to the phyical size of the type), and the largerr type is pushing the first baseline down in the mixed size columns.  Using an actual baseline grid and a style that forces alignment to it would probably solve this, or pehaps changing the first baseline option to a fixed value in the text frame options. ... View more

Thanks @Eugene Tyson  ... View more

The place to request the kind of change you want, and there's certainly no reason you shouldn'e ask, is at https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests You might also apply for the pre-release program. Testers sometimes have more influence than other users, though it's hardly guaranteed (I lost the battle to save the navigator panel way back around CS3 which to my mind was far more useful than the curent power zoom that "replaces" it). ... View more

I neither agree nor disagree, but as a pragmatist and long-time user of tools in a number of professions I think training oneself to use tools as they were designed generally yields better results than using them in sub-optimal ways. When a better tool for the job is avaialble for the way I work I generally choose to aquire and use that tool, but if I'm stuck with somoething that works, but not quite the way I would like I adapt. ... View more

Well, as we know, InDesign is not Word and the behavior, as designed, when you place text only is to adopt the style applied immediately before the insertion point. I suspect if you change the preference to all info, presuming the styling is correct in Word, you'll get the behavior you desire, and if you don't want to paste formatted text for some reason you are always able to select Paste without formatting. ... View more

Not saying you are wrong here, but curious what your setting in prefs is for Clipboard Handling when pasting text. Is it alll information, or text only? Is the the text tagged with the corect style in Word? ... View more

As @Eugene Tyson suggests, redefining the applied style may be the answer. ... View more

I think we've seen this before, and the problem is that the size reported in the panel is rounded to the number you are using, but internally InDesign sees it as the actual value, so doesn't match. As far as I know there's no direct way in the UI to get the actual number, but it might be scriptable. A forum search might turn up similar threads with a possible solution. ... View more

As a PC user I'm not fluent in Mac permissions, but it is my understanding that the newer versions of Mac OS are much more finicky and one must explicitly allow InDesign file access. ... View more

Possibly a permissions issue? ... View more

Since the file displays properly on a different system we know it is not a file problem but something to do with your system. Blank panels are usually cache problems.  Please reset the preferences as described in Reset InDesign Preferences and Other Troubleshooting  and restart InDesign. If the problem is not solved  restart the computer in Safe Mode and check. If the problem is resolved it is caused by a software conflict with something else running on the system and you can use the System Configuration Utility to do a selective startup to find the cause, but this is most likely NOT the problem. ... View more

As I suggested in your other thread, this is a problem in your InDesign Cache file. You need to delete the contents of C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Adobe\InDesign\Version 8.0\<language>\Caches ... View more

Blank Panels such as you are seeing are usually solved by dleting the InDesign Cache files. You can find directions for clearing the caches at Reset InDesign Preferences and Other Troubleshooting  ... View more

If all you need is a placeholder/marker, you could anchor a color-filled rectangle in the text, custom postioned in the margin. ... View more

I reralize you're very near the end of your project, but it would really be beneficial to you if you could get some basic hands-on training.  I think actual classroom sessions are best, if you can find them near you, since you have the opportunity to interact directly with the instructor. If you can't do that, LinkedIn Learning has some of the best online classes available. A number of the responders here are trainers. ... View more