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Levels (Layers) are empty

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September 15, 2017
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Hey,

my inDesign remove all objects from my levels. They're still there in the left windows (can see them) but in my "level"-display just nothing appears?!

Need urgent help! Level "green" and "blue" is buggy.

Moderator note: Edited title to include layers as the panel in question.

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Correct answer amaarora

Hi,

Yes the layers panel will only show layers of the active spread.

Once you click on the down arrow, each layer will expand showing the objects in that layer.

To select a particular object of the layer all you would need to do is to click on the tiny red box next to the entry of that item in the layers panel and that object will be selected in the document

-Aman

amaarora

Inspiring

Hi,

Can you post a screenshot of the document page?

Or do one thing: select green level so that the pen icon comes next to it and create a text frame. Check if it comes under the green level and that the frame boundary is green colored.

Do the same for blue.

This way you can be sure that the levels/layers are working fine

-Aman

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FloBoBAuthor

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Edit: Okay. inDesign shows me only the layers of the active page (If I click on page 1, it shows me all layers of page 1). Is it normal?!

Hello Aman,

I've created a "green" text frame:

If I click on a existing object of the "green" layer at the main window, indesign shows me all objects:

amaaroraCorrect answer

Inspiring

Hi,

Yes the layers panel will only show layers of the active spread.

Once you click on the down arrow, each layer will expand showing the objects in that layer.

To select a particular object of the layer all you would need to do is to click on the tiny red box next to the entry of that item in the layers panel and that object will be selected in the document

-Aman

Bill Silbert

Community Expert

Try trashing your InDesign cache files.

To do so:

For Macintosh Users: With InDesign closed launch a Finder Window in column view and click on your home folder. With the Option Key pressed choose Library from the Finder Go Menu. Within the Library folder find the “Caches” folder. Within the Caches folder find and delete the entire file “Adobe InDesign”. I find that deleting the cache file completely leads to a lasting change.

For Windows Users: Follow the path to C:\Users\[User Name]\AppData\Local\Adobe\InDesign\Version [#]\en_US\Cache.

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FloBoBAuthor

Participating Frequently

Hey,

I tried that without success. Removed the whole folder "Adobe inDesign" from "Library". My "levels" still empty.

When I click on a object in my main windows in inDesign the level appears for a while.

hammer0909

Community Expert

If you create a brand new document and create layers and add content does it work as expected? If so, try doing a "save as" and choosing .idml from the drop down menu. Now open that .idml file and see if the problem persists.

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