It worked like a charm! I had thought I had it all to zero already. ... View more

Do you mean like on DropBox? ... View more

I hope to see the portrait and text on top of the old paper. Toward that end, hopefully, I have made 3 layers: I now have a red layer first, the top of the list - the portrait. The navy blue layer is second - the text. The green layer is third - the old paper. Instead, I see the old paper, the text on top of the paper, but the photo just barely showing. ... View more

I apply a Master page to each page in my document. Most are called "A-2-Col Master". To my surprise, I just clicked on layers and I see that the page in question DOES have two layers! The Blue Layer, Layer 1, had everything on it. The Red Layer, Layer 2, was blank. So, I just put the portrait on the 'Red Layer and now I have two ways in which I cannot get her portrait on top of the old paper. ... View more

Thanks for your help. Actually, I usually work this way ('normal' with hidden character shown). I guess it fits in with my cluttered life! I can now see that my new 'captiontext' paragraph style had the font in it and at a size with many decimals. It was my own fault! Seeing those strange numbers, I didn't realize they were (apparently) all the same strange numbers! At least I hope that this was the entire problem! I will be vigilant now for font sizes! ... View more

And now I am doing some minor work on my file with a photo and most of the images on my screen have wiped out - why would this be? ... View more

Thanks so much! I am happy to find the place to register my folder location - I hope that will solve my problems. I will also go in and turn Carbonite off on the Creative Cloud folder. Yes, I had a fairly full C drive so switched my Creative Cloud folder into my D drive.  I had figured out (finally) that a lack of empty space was causing me serious, seemingly random, and unpredictable problems. I will try leaving Creative Cloud on my D drive for now as I do not have the wherewithal to plow through all my C drive data. It seems that most everything "wants" to be on the C drive! ... View more

You are very kind to reply - I love all the Adobe volunteers! 1 - I now see that the "Date modified" has now updated from Feb. 10 to today. Not sure what I did to make that happen. 2 - I suspect that the tiny red dot may be Carbonite. And perhaps the red or orange swirl that I see at quick access is always there. 3 - Am trying to figure out how and why various edits that I make to my document seem to slip away. ... View more

Okay, I have moved the version I am using to be in the first column - regular version. I start the first page as "1" through to the end. The Alternate Layout is named by section PAT, PATT, PATT and regular numbers after that:  PAT-1, PAT-2, etc. When I do a Control F in the program on my WIN10 PC, I often want to do global changes, like changing the syntax used for a library for example. I want to search my regular version but not my PAT versions. ANy way to do that in the screen below? ... View more

You suggested to "turn the section off" on page1 of the layout that I am not using. I would like to do this but do not see how to do it. I prefer not to delete all the pages of the alternate layout as I would like to have it available in case I need to look at it. It would be great to be able to turn it off/on so that when I do a general search of the document (which I do all the time) that I do not accidentally edit the alternate layout. ... View more

Ha ha! It makes you wonder!  I am using English! It is listed in a section also talking about unicode but I cannot seem to do a screenshot. Say, I am so happy now to see which layout I am working on. I notice an hour ago that - oh my gosh - I had switched from the regular to the Alternate - not sure how that happened - scary! ... View more

1. When I right-click on the layout title, what does the following mean, "Right to Left Reading Order." Just wondered if it has anything to do with my interests as I am afraid to drag/drop and swap the columns because I previously pulled some pages from one column to the other by mistake - what a mess! 2. Thanks - good to know the naming conventions for the layout titles. 3. Before I saw your reply: I clicked the very top and very bottom page and added a Section prefix as PAT. It made the change down to page 136. So then I highlighted 137 do to the very bottom page and added a Section prefix as PATT.  It went down about 50 pages more with that label. Then I went again to the first unlabeled page, clicked that, and clicked the very bottom page again. I then named the Section prefix as PATTT. Success! Hope there was nothing wrong with doing that! 4. An example is in the right column below: ... View more

Thank you. That is how I ordinarily save any InDesign file as pdf. Either that or click File>Print> and then select "Adobe PDF" as my printer. The reason I asked the question is that I thought the gentleman was referring to options that need to be selected to optimize the pdf, such as items on this screen: ... View more

How do I tell InDesign that printing is my intent? ... View more

So the preview you added is "A4-H-"... I got to the screen you pictured "Window", "Pages", (F12) to open the "Pages Panel", then clicked on the 3 parallel lines in the upper right, then "Numbering and Section Options." Question 1: I have two columns on the page panel - is the Alternate Layout always on the left? Question 2: Is the title of the layout at the top the column? Question 3: How would I select an entire column to label all the many pages at once? Question 4: I notice that in each of my columns some of the pages are just numbers and others preceded by the word "Page before each number. How can I fix that? ... View more

Oh, I see now to make corrections in PreFlight. ... View more

I have sometimes mistakenly added edits to the Alternate Format, rather than to the original file. I have now learned that the original file is a parent of the Alternative Format. A change in the Alternative Format does NOT change the original file, although the opposite IS true. Not sure what to do about it, but I CAN see some of my missing edits. ... View more

1 - Yes, it will be printed. The printer wants the InDesign file converted to PDF. I didn't know about "setting up Print as the intent". Hopefully, the prior person did that. How do I check on that? 2 - I am puzzling over which layout is which and I cannot find where the parameters are listed. I want the one for 8.5"x11" as that is the one I will want. I am afraid that I don't know which one I have been working from. ... View more