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My PC involuntarily restarted yesterday, and after that, I found that InDesign no longer shows me the dropdown to choose a unit of measurement upon starting a new document. I'm stuck with picas If I type in a cm or mm measurement to force it to recognise metric sizes, it just converts it back to picas, and continues to display picas and points@ in the document. No help in "Preferences> units and increments". Where have my units of measurement choices gone?
I have updated to the 2018 edition, hoping that would help, but the problem remains.
You didn't hit those keys fast enough.
Try it again or do it manually: Troubleshooting 101: Replace, or "trash" your InDesign preferences
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Try resetting your InDesign preferences:
Close InDesign. Then hold down Ctrl + Alt + Shift (Windows) or Cmd + Ctrl + Opt + Shift (Mac), and relaunch InDesign. Respond in the affirmative to the dialog asking if you really want to replace the preferences.
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Thank you for the suggestion, but that didn't make any difference. The dialogue box didn't ask if I wanted to replace preferences though, just asked if I agreed to let the application make changes to my machine? I said yes, but nothing followed.
Before this issue, I could select the unit of measurement from a dropdown when creating a new doc, this just isn't shown anymore. I've noticed in the past that this issue can come and go, I guess due to fixes in patches / updates? Hasn't been a problem for me for quite a while though. But here it is again 😕
I have found out two ways to change the unit measurement once the doc is open though, the simplest one is right clicking on the ruler at top and side of screen, then you get a list. It sticks for that document at least.
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You didn't hit those keys fast enough.
Try it again or do it manually: Troubleshooting 101: Replace, or "trash" your InDesign preferences
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I noticed that this can STILL sometimes not solve the stuck pica units. After you launch InDesign the first time after you scraped all prferences you HAVE to choose something else than Pica in the very first document creation dialog box and create a document. After that, you can close this document again and then you can go into Indesign settings under Units an change the Picas to something else and – THEN – finally it will actually change the units to what yoiu chose. Otherwise even if yoiu choose e.g. milimeters it will keep picas.
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Thanks for this tip, it solved the issue of being stuck in pica's despite having millimetres set as the default in global pref's.