Re: Greyed out input fields in InDesign
Start by trashing the prefs. See Replace Your Preferences Have you removed any fonts from the system?
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Re: Greyed out input fields in InDesign
I reset the preferences but unfortunately, it didn't fix the issue. I haven't removed any fonts, but I did install several a couple months ago, however, InDesign worked after those fonts were...
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Working on a book, let's say I have ten ID files with one story each, and each of these ten stories is many (100+) pages long, each page containing one text frame. Those editing tasks which cause new...
View ArticleRe: Greyed out input fields in InDesign
Please create a new user account on your computer and log in with that account and try ID. Do the dialogs work?
View ArticleRe: Greyed out input fields in InDesign
This actually worked. All the edit boxes appear in the other user's account. So I guess it's something configured to just this account and not the actual InDesign files. I can't think of what would be...
View ArticleRe: Greyed out input fields in InDesign
OK, that does, indeed mean the problem is in the old account, not in ID. Log in with the old account again, and use the manual method to remove the prefs from the link I posted earlier, then remove any...
View ArticleRe: Greyed out input fields in InDesign
I'm not sure where that list of files is in that discussion thread. It mentions the FontExplorer plugin for Photoshop, but I don't see that in my plugins folder for InDesign. (I have all files set to...
View ArticleRe: Importing CSV file with Data Merge Fails
Not to rain on any parades, but IMHO Pete has it right. The opening and closing quotes of that field aren't meant to be there. I stand by my screenshot. My situation may also not be the same as the...
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Oh sorry, I completely missed that. I removed those but nothing has changed that I can tell.
View ArticleRe: Greyed out input fields in InDesign
Try replacing the prefs one more time holding down the Cmd, Control, Opt & Shift keys when you start ID.
View ArticleRe: Greyed out input fields in InDesign
Just did that and nothing. I'm going through and removing any programs I might have installed within the past month to see if any are interfereing with it, but I don't think that's the case.
View ArticleRe: Greyed out input fields in InDesign
That should do the trick, so make sure you really got them all. Won't hurt to restart the computer, too.
View ArticleRe: Importing CSV file with Data Merge Fails
Not for a tab delimited file. I know of no other application that mix and match delimiters. one should be able to have triple setz of quotes with a tab delimited file. plus under certain circumstances,...
View ArticleRe: Importing CSV file with Data Merge Fails
Colly—what you mentioned in post #27 fixed my problem, too. Thank you. However, I still don't understand—what's the problem with the Google Docs-generated utf-8 file? Why does InDesign display the...
View ArticleRe: Importing CSV file with Data Merge Fails
Mike,The file was saved as .csv, not tab delimited...
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I am sure I pressed something on the keyboard by accident, and I hope someone can explain to me how to make text boxes look normal again. On one page in my forthcoming book, when I click on any text...
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Need instructions on how to do that, because I don't know how. When I press what I >think< is the screenshot key, I get four choices. I don't know which one to choose, or what to do after that.
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