Indesign won't start - The Welcome page flashes and then nothing

Question

I saw a post from sometime back advising to hold Control, Option, Command and Shift when starting. This works after clicking on a prefences message. But Indesign appears to have reset itself and the Interface text is very big. The only way to change this is by altering the settings but these don't take effect until I restart and so I'm going round in circles. Any advice?
Working on Mac OS Ventura 13.2
Indesign 18.5

Derek Cross · Accepted Answer

Thank you. I've tried this but it still won't let me start Indesign without holding down the keyboard keys.

A few questions:

How much RAM and spare hard disk capacity do you have?

When you've reset the InDesign preferences do you get a question asking you “Delete InDesign Preference Files?” and you click Yes?

Have you tried uninstalling InDesign and reinstalling it again?

Derek Cross · Answer

Holding down Ctrl+Alt+Shift. (for Windows) or CTL+OPT+CMD+Shift (for Mac OS X) resets the InDesign preferences back to the factory defaults.

Is your issue that the appliction diplays larger than you wish, does this apply to other applications or just to InDesign?

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