Trashing Preferences

Sometimes InDesign may start to act strangely. This may mean that the files that hold all your preferences and settings have become corrupt. In that case you need to trash those files and let InDesign start over with the factory settings.

To restore all preferences and default settings

1.	As you launch InDesign, immediately press Ctrl-Alt-Shift (Win) or Cmd-Opt-Shift-Control (Mac).
2.	Click Yes when asked if you want to delete your preference files . The Delete InDesign Preference Files dialog box lets you start from scratch with factory-fresh default settings.