Disappeared dashed lines options

very often when I want to adjust the spacing for the dashed lines in Indesign cs6, the options disappear in the stroke flyout panel.
Strangely, it remains disappeared for the specified file forever. The workaround that I do for this is that I open a new file, make the dashed lines as desired, (yeah, the options come in a new file), then copy paste it. What exactly is causing this weird behaviour?

arjun2 wrote:
Here's my screenshot with everything selected. I have yet to trash my preferences. currently learning to backup my shortcuts . Does this problem occur in the latest version of indesign which is CC?
I'm always beware of new versions, often they are heavier and take longer time to process, e.g. photoshop cs6 i found slower than cs5
You haven't select the Dashed Line at the bottom of the Type options.
You have 2 different stroke weights selected, that's why weight shows as nothing.
Bold part: That's just not true for everyone, in fact I find each version of all the Adobe suites to run perfectly fine - there may be something you need to change on your system to get the programs to work better. But I never notice any difference from version to version regarding longer times to process.

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