Missing InDesign toolbar?

[victoriap85291332]

Everytime I open a new document my InDesign toolbar disappears!

I know how to reopen the toolbar but why does it keep disappearing?

[Ian Blogs]

It could be that you have set it to no toolbar in a blank document . It will then become the default.

Open Indesign and go to window-tools to show the toolbar then close Indesign. The default will then show the toolbar.

[Barb Binder · Accepted solution]

Or, just reset the workspace:

Window > Workspace > Reset XXX (whichever workspace you are using).

[victoriap85291332]

Worked great!!! Thank you SO MUCH! Easy solution

[Barb Binder]

Yay!

[walloprobert]

Thank you so much - I thought I'd never find it again

[defaultv56wcn5y7u8b]

waooh it works great

[Gautam221553928lt6]

Awesome! PERFECT! Thank you, thank you, thank you SO MUCH!

[J. Alan Meier]

Instead of resetting your entire workspace (especially if you have a custom one that hasn't been saved for some reason) the toolbars you're looking for are likely found by going to Window>Control for the top bar or Window>Tools for the side tool bar.

[antoineg15916242]

This is the good answer.

What BarBinder suggested doesn't fix anything and can even gove you more trouble by resetting your workspace then needing to replace everything like before.

[jane-e]

Hi Antoine

It’s a best practice to save your custom workspace — then resetting it will not cause you to put it back to as it was before.

I’m curious, though, as to why you marked Barb’s answer as “abuse”?

~ Jane

[lstephenson99]

Perfect answer, thanks!