InDesign... invisible shapes and images

I have a 100 page book and I just noticed I have many missing rectangle shapes and images. I copied and pasted a vector file in the program, could that have caused it? I really need help trying to fix this problem.... The layers are still there but their just invisible
Thanks

Looking at the new screen shot the selected rectangle is centered on the spine and has no witdh or height (look at the values in the control panel) which would explain why it is invisble.
Can't tell you how it got that way, though, but I think the file is now probably corrupt. See Remove minor corruption by exporting and be prepared to delted and recreate these rectangles.

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That means that the only way someone is going to be able to help is if they have experience with your software and how Acrobat intereacts
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Working in a pre-press environment we obviously prefer to print from pdf files (as opposed to using supplied native art). As a result I am always receiving pdf files from external clients who have saved their artwork from indesign to pdf format, so Im not sure what the real difference is between me imposing a supplied indesign/pdf files in indesign vs me imposing my own indesign/pdf files in indesign. (aprt from perhaps going through distiller twice)
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