Expert: InDesign Pro - 5/19/2009

Question
The pages palette is acting very strange... I have to pull the edge and make the palette very wide in order to see the pages. It is almost like they are right justified and I can't move them to center or left. And to see them, the palette needs to be so wide that it obscures 90% of the document.
Also, my document is approaching 28 pages and I can't see the pages at the bottom and the palette does not seem to have a scroll bar.
What can I do?

Answer
Hi Amanda, thanks for the question. It seems this has come up quite often in CS3.

A couple things I would try first:

Under the pull-out menu in the Pages panel (three little lines in the top, right corner), click on Panel Options. From there, you have the choice to show your pages horizontally or vertically. If you currently have horizontal selected, try vertical.

If that doesn't work, you may have to rebuild your preferences. You can easily do this by holding down Command-Option-Shift-Control immediately after starting up the program. You'll get a dialog box asking to delete preferences, choose yes. One drawback, is that if you have changed any preferences to suit your own workflow, you'll lose them. This is why a lot of people back up their preference files when things are working well.

If neither of those work, let me know and we'll try again. Thanks, Amanda. Good luck!

Scott