Tool Panel greyed out and all tools (except Text) are inactive

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Hi

For some reason my tool panel now only allows me to use the Text tool - the rest of the tools are inactive and unable to be selected. I have tried rebooting, uninstalling and reinstalling the app and that hasn't worked. I found a previous post with this same issue but i do not have touch enabled so whilst that solved their dilemma it unfortunately won't fix mine.

Any suggestions??

Thanks

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jimc1005175

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I couldn’t deselect notes and resetting workspace wasn’t doing it, but going into preferences and resetting upon quit did it for me. There’s 20 minutes of my life that isn’t coming back. :)

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janep51894407

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Wow, this has just happened to me and the story editor trick worked! Bizarre, but thank goodness this conversation is still here after all this time. Thank you!

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greg21

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We had the same problem this morning with one of our designers MAC...what worked was to make sure that the Note Tool in the tool bar is clicked off and the rest of the tools were highlighted back on!

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Barb Binder

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Hi Nicole:

That's how it looks when you are in Story Editor view. Choose Edit > Edit in Layout View.

However, if you uninstalled/reinstalled InDesign and the issue persists then it is more than that. It's mostly likely time to rebuild the preferences and/or cache files. See https://www.rockymountaintraining.com/adobe-indesign-rebuilding-preferences-cache/ .

~Barb

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~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training