My tools palette has disappeared

[rudykathie]

To say I am a novice at InDesign would be to insult most novices.  But I do put out a decent product knowing just what I need to know and bumbling my way through the rest.

So today I am working and suddenly my tools palette disappears.  I closed the program, waited a bit, and then restarted it.  It is still missing.  I rebooted my maching (Win7).  No tools palette.  I went back to another project hoping I did something on this project that made it disappear and it would show up elsewhere.  Nope.

I though that maybe it was just missing from my screen so I made the screen smaller (seeing lots of pages) hoping it had slid all the way to the left.  Nope.

Nothing I do seems to bring it back.  Of course I first went into Windows and there it was checked.  I unchecked it and shut down.  Started up again and it had remained unchecked.  I checked it and my page shifted a bit to the right but still no tolls palette.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks,

Kathie

[kacym91738426]

Sadly I can't do that because I do not have admin rights to my work computer.

I did contact my IT department. They uninstalled and reinstalled the program and everything is back to normal. So I think in reinstalling the preferences were reset. If this glitch happens on my home computer I will for sure keep in mind to clear out the preferences.

Thank you all so much for your advice!

[jmlevy]

You can reset the InDesign preferences, even if you have not admin rights of your computer. I work in the IT department of a French press group and none of our users have admin rights of their computer; I can ensure you that they can reset the InDesign preferences, using the keyboard.

[saeedalkarmi]

Try to hit Tab or Shift+Tab!!

[DiscoveryChurch]

I think you need to go to window/tools