Three more thoughts:
1. If the text involved isn’t Japanese, then the solution might be “don’t worry about it” as the Japanese adjustments won’t actually do anything to text in other scripts.
2. If you can turn ON Japanese Para Composer*, perhaps you’ll then be able to remove the Japanese-specific overrides.
3. Rebuild the template? Use a backup copy from before the problem occurred?

*mine’s activated via the World Tools plugin, but it may be possible to get the CJK version of InDesign under your CC subscription.

Good luck,
Chris.

On the other hand, some people would consider that centering (going to the location of the Find) to be expected behaviour. Certainly is in many other programs.
Sometimes it’s useful to be able to see the local effect of a find/change, as you’re making it.

Chris.

Hello Abdul,

If the Malayalam text is to be in a Unicode/OpenType font, then you need to use World Ready Paragraph Composer, either by using the ME (Middle East) version of InDesign, or one of the plug-ins that do the same (e.g. World Tools from In-Tools).

If the text is non-Unicode (in an old ASCII font), try putting that font in the Document Fonts folder, and then hope for the best! Those early fonts are really hard work.

Good luck,
Chris.

Is there a particular reason *not* to do File > New > Document ?
Or to put it another way, what do you want to keep from the “old” document?
If you need to keep master page items, styles etc, you could copy the master pages to a fresh new 70-page document, and import the styles from the old (using Load Styles from the panels).

Chris.

When you say it “shifts”, do you mean it does or doesn’t respect the new margins if, after a page deletion, it moves from a right page to a left, or v.v.?

I just tried a test document (CS6), using different inside (15mm) and outside (9mm) margins, 5 pages, laid out in spreads (1, 2-3, 4-5).
I put text boxes in 5 positions on page 3 as follows:
a. touching both left and right margins (i.e. the usable width of the page);
b. touching only the left margin;
c. touching only the right margin;
d. left of centre, with left edge aligned to right edge of box (b);
e. right of centre, with right edge aligned to left edge of box (c).

Then I deleted page 2. The old page 3 became the new page 2. It contained all the elements from the old page 3, aligned just as described above. i.e. I didn’t need to manually shift any text boxes, as they stayed in position relative to the margins and relative to each other.

I don’t *think* primary text frames have anything to do with it.

Chris.

At least on CS6, if you do:
File – New Document – then make your preferred settings – Save Preset – Default
you can set it so that you get new documents that have page 1 on the right hand side.

As for the default font: if I open the Character palette while no documents are open, and then change the font, it keeps that new font as the default font.

Good luck,
Chris.

Yes, you make a folder named Document fonts (exactly like that) at the same level as the publication, and put fonts dedicated to the publication in there. See also here: https://creativepro.com/document-fonts-work.php

I’ve had ancient fonts that worked with InDesign from this folder, but not in the normal system font folders. That was on a Mac though, but it seems that InDeisgn bypasses the operating system for fonts stored in this special folder.

Chris.