Control Bar & Artboard Question

2 questions regarding my Control bar & Artboard set-up. At work when I use the rectangle tool I am able to see the dimensions of the box in my control panel. At home, on my laptop, I can not. I must first click blue underlined type that says transform. Is that bc of the size of my monitors? At work, I have a large screen. At home, the laptop.
Regarding the Artboard set-up, when customizing a personal Workspace, is there a way to have rulers visible each time I open a new document? I always have to go to View to Show Rulers when opening docs.
Thanks for any input on these questions.

Im sorry Jacob-I really dont understand this answer, especially the last part of it. Are you saying what the others have said? That I really cant set my prefs to Show Rulers for every doc. I have to manually do it with each new doc? Can you please explain further?

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Hi, I am a college student and our college a year ago sent me CS5.5 Master Collection InDesign at that time the font control bar was not functioning correctly on my PC. Our class was about Adobe Illustrator so our instructor rather than deal with it had us just cut and paste things into MS Word.
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Someone thought I may of installed it incorrectly, so I removed all ADOBE software from my computer ran maintenance and virus scans and reinstalled the software, a whole day wasted, but it still is doing the same thing.
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b) There's a problem with having OpenType and TrueType fonts on hand?
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d) There is something somewhere within the software I need to flip a switch on?
Our instructor I gather who owns his own business his works just fine on his PC, but then because it is his business software it makes me think it has to do with the Student Teacher Edition.
I have more than enough RAM and hard drive space the Processor is a AMD A8-3800 APU with Radeon(tm) HD. Graphics is 2.40 GHz. It is a 64-bit Operating System. Oh I am using a Windows OS 7.0 Professional .
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There is no difference between the commercial and educattional versions of the products other than the license terms. The software itself is the same.
Since you are on windows 7, the first question is are you using large fonts in the Windows interface? Large fonts combined with an Aero theme are deadly to ID. See InDesign tools and panels don't respond to mouse clicks (Windows 7/Vista)
If this doesn't apply, the next thing to try is replacing your preferences. See Replace Your Preferences
Do you use a font manager? If so, which one?
Does the account you are using have adminsitrator privileges? Shouldn't matter, but it would be worth trying a new account that does.
It's still possible that the installation failed in some way. That Illustrator error certainly makes it look like a strong possibility, and there may have been some left-over crud from the first failed install that was not replaced the second time. If the things above don't clear up the problems, I would suggest Deactivating the suite from an applicatin that will open, and uninstalling again, then run the cleaner tool (CS Cleaner Tool for installation problems | CCM, CS6, CS5.5, CS5, CS4, CS3) which will remove all traces of the previous installations. Reboot, then before reinstalling run MSConfig and turn off all non-essential startup programs and services, especially any virus or maware scanners, third-party firewall, instant messengers, iTunes and all browser helpers and toolbars, then close MSconfig and reboot. Log in as an Administrator (the actual Adminsitrator account would be best, but it may not be turned on). When the warning comes up about diagnostic mode continue to boot (cancel MSConfig if it opens), then run the installer again. You can now run MSconfig to restore normal startup and reboot once more.

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[svn:osmf:] 14521: ChromeLibrary: moving live and recording buttons to the left hand side of the control bar , and making the button backdrops a little bigger.

Revision: 14521
Revision: 14521
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2010-03-02 12:47:27 -0800 (Tue, 02 Mar 2010)
Log Message:
ChromeLibrary: moving live and recording buttons to the left hand side of the control bar, and making the button backdrops a little bigger.
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Revision: 14521
Revision: 14521
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2010-03-02 12:47:27 -0800 (Tue, 02 Mar 2010)
Log Message:
ChromeLibrary: moving live and recording buttons to the left hand side of the control bar, and making the button backdrops a little bigger.
Modified Paths:
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    osmf/trunk/libs/ChromeLibrary/assets/images/eject_up.png
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That interface is entirely based on what plugin is being used. For IE, it looks like Windows Media Player, and in your Firefox screenshot, it looks like the QuickTime plugin is being used.
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