That's pretty strange. You might try importing into a fresh new document. If that doesn't work, you might try resaving the text file as RTF or docx or something different.

No, cannot be done with text variables. Sorry!

I don't know of any workaround. The minimum requirements are pretty clear: 1024 x 768. See this page at Adobe: https://kb2.adobe.com/cps/401/k…..01125.html

There's no way to food the laptop into a higher res mode, then install, then set it back again? I have to say that even if you did, you'd have trouble because some of the menus and perhaps even dialog boxes would get cut off.

Or you could just use a nested style. That's probably easier. Just say “up to (or through) the first colon.” (You can replace the word “characters” in the nested style with a colon (or any character).

Suppress Page Range means “don't put a page number in the index.” Sounds like you want Current Page. You'll likely need to go through and change each of the index references (double-click them in the index panel to edit them).

@sue: Yes, that was a rather obscure reference, wasn't it? It meant this blog post:

https://creativepro.com/cre…..rtwell.php

I think this might be something that was fixed in CS4. I am using CS5 and it works okay (both if I use a library item and if I save the object as a snippet). Many people are using snippets instead of libraries now.