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My pages palette in InDesign has issues. The page icons are about 1/3 off the
edge of the palette and the scrolling doesn't work. My icons for my master
pages are also missing. The master pages do reappear when I changed the
palette to horizontal, but no scrolling. Also I have no extender tab in the lower
right corner.
I've heard of this problem before but (luckily) haven't had to deal with it personally. But here's what I would try: First, select the default workspace by clicking Window > Workspace > [Default] and see if that works.
If not, shut down InDesign and find your preferences folder for InDesign (on my Mac it's in the User > Library > Preferences > Adobe InDesign > Version 5.0) and rename the file something like "Version 5.0 Corrupt." The next time you launch InDesign it will create a new preference folder and hopefully your problem is solved. For just this reason, I tend to make backups of my preference files when everything is working properly.
Hope this helps, let me know if there's anything else I can help with.
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