InDesign

I applied a simple drop shadow onto an object, and now whenever I create a new object of any type. . . a drop shadow is automatically generated. So, I have to go through the extra steps to disable the unwanted effect for each new object created. Something is amiss here. I didn't see any preferences setting to toggle this feature on/off, nor anything in the properties or effects panel either. Ideas? InDesign 20.3iMac 24, M1, 16GSonoma 14.7.4. 

I generally only use the books feature initially, and when I feel like the client is basically sure of the content, I merge all the documents into one, which I think is safer.　 How do you merge documents in books? Would moving pages be too inefficient? Another question: I've never understood what “Automatic Document Conversion” does.

Hello. I hope someone might have an answer as I have been looking for a couple of hours now... When I click my starting point using the pen tool in indesign, on release of my mouse, the point appears a mile away to the left. If I close the shape or finish the line and start another one, the first point is placed incorrectly again.   I do not know why it has happened. I used the Adjust Layout option for the first time yesterday and I "think" the trouble started then. I have: Updated Indesign now v19.5 Saved as new document Reset preferences (CTRL+ALT+SHIFT on program start) tried other documents (same problem) restarted PC Interestingly starting a new document I didnt have the issue I also just discovered that it is only in a few documents in a series that I am doing   The video explains it all.  Any help would be appreciated. I hope its something simple. 🙂     <Title renamed by MOD>

Hi, I have installed the English Arabic version and all is looking well. The text and text characters are going from right to left. But also the Farsi numbers! Which should go from left to right. How can I solve this? Do hope someone has the answer Lisbeth

I was having trouble with Indesign crashing and it was suggested I deleted and re-uploaded the software. However, when I tried to do so I was told my computer was not compatible, why can't I just re-upload the same version of Indesign that worked before? Very frustrated at the moment as Adobe is still taking my £65 per month!

In this text box to the right of this graphic, I want each of the bold words ("Who," etc.) to be right justified with each other (as shown in the second image below), and then the beginning of each description to the lined up with each other. I've played with the various indentation controls, but cannot get it to work. I think I am probably missing some basic function here. Right now, all this text is part of a single text box. Advice?  

What is the script to programmatically extract all numbers enclosed in square brackets (e.g. [12]) from a text frame in InDesign, create anchored text frames on the left side of the main text flow for each, and apply a specific paragraph style (e.g. 'Number Style') to the extracted numbers within those anchored frames?

After updating InDesign to version 20.3, it is no longer possible to scale proportionally using Shift Date or Shift+Alt. Neither downgrading to 20.2 nor restarting helped. I also renamed the old InDesign files in the library. Please help, as it is not really possible to work with InDesign like this. (Macbook Pro M3 Max 128Gb - MacOS 15.4.1 (24E263)

Help! My 2025 indesign version 20.2 is crashing constantly - i keep getting this message and it's dangerous with working files as it's already corrupt one: "Adobe InDesign is shutting down. A serious error was detected. Please restart InDesign to recover work in any unsaved InDesign documents."Using M4 Mac MiniI'm saving to a hard drive or mac and not cloudI've deleted preferences in the library, resetpreferences in the app plus also unstalled indesign and redownloaded it. All no effect 😞Any ideas?     <Title renamed by MOD>

Dear Team,I hope this message finds you well.I would like to bring to your kind attention some feedback regarding the latest update of Adobe InDesign (Version 20.3). Firstly, I am pleased to see that the new Math Expressions feature has been introduced — it is a wonderful addition, and I know many Adobe users, including myself, had been eagerly waiting for it. It is great that we no longer have to rely on third-party plugins for this functionality.However, I have observed a few issues that I would like to highlight for your consideration:When inserting a math expression, the application does not accept numbers typed using the numeric keypad (located on the right side of the keyboard).Currently, the inserted expression aligns with the baseline instead of the middle leading, which affects the overall appearance. Ideally, math expressions should align with the middle leading for better formatting.It would be beneficial to expand the range of available math expressions, as many other equat

Bonjour, Je poste de message car depuis peu de temps, je ne parviens plus à faire le caractère apostrohpe (') dans InDesign. À la place, c'est le signe ">" qui s'affiche. Même lorsque je fais un copier-coller d'un texte, toutes les apostrophes sont remplacées par le signe ">" J'ai réinitialité les préférences InDesign, relancé le logiciel, essayé plusieurs combinaisons de touches... rien à faire. J'utilise un MacBook Air. Auriez-vous des pistes à me donner afin de résoudre ce problème ? Merci 🙂

Are there any size or user limits with Share For Review?1) My team is having issues with the number of reviewers in the document at a time. If there are more than two, SFR becomes extremely sluggish.2) They also see issues with the size of the document. If it's a large document (over 75 pages), SFR again becomes sluggish and non-responsive. Couple that with multiple reviewers and it freezes. Is anyone else having this issue or know what the size/number limits are? We love this tool and want to make it work for our proposal review process.THANKS!

I have a quick question about the Color Theme Tool bar. I accidently clicked it and now it is on my screen forever and I can't get it off. Is there any way to get it off my screen?

I used to be able to precisely move an object using keyborad arrows or with the cursor but suddenly I can no longer do this without the object or text jumping to some randomly preset place or disappearing completely. I've checked text wrap and snap settings and neither of these seem to be the cause. Please help before I tear all my hair out! TIA.

I'm working on a 280 page document and I am trying to delete some pages. Every time I delete a page it somehow just reappears. It will appear to have deleted (the next page will slide into the deleted pages space and the number of pages goes down) but then whenever I click on the page in the pages panel, it hasn't gone anywhere. Also it is messing other stuff up. It's altering the headers on the pages and mixing everything up. I have no clue what to do because these pages have to be deleted. SOMEONE PLEASE HELP.

Hi, I accidently clicked when uninstalling InDesign beta that all settings should be removed and i see now that it has applied also to my regular InDesign and i lost all my favorite fonts etc.is there anything that I can do now???

I'm turning a 300+ page book with over 700 Endnotes into a Reflowable Epub. After having ID crash repeatedly during export, I found an extensive list of posts on this board pointing to Endnotes as the problem. Unfortunately, I had already converted all 700+ footnotes to endnotes because the footnotes weren't superscripting all the numbers correctly during export—leaving some of them not superscripted, which looked pretty messy. However, the only real solution that folks came up with was to convert the endnotes back to footnotes. Rather than convert all my endnotes back to footnotes, I exported each chapter to Reflowable Epub separately, finding that Chapter 4 was the only one that caused InDesign to freeze. I converted that chapter back to footnotes and it exported fine, even though the numbers were messy, so I left that one chapter as footnotes (changed to endnotes during export) and the whole book exported correctly. I hope this helps others to troubleshoot ID boo

On a Mac, if you hold down a letter a contextual menu appears above it with the various accent glyphs:It's very handy when you work in languages that require them. Unfortunately, it seem to work everywhere except in Adobe software. If you hold down "a", you get aaaaaaaaaaa instead of that menu. I know about keyboard mapping, the glyph panel and Option-shortcuts --- what I'm trying to find out is if there's a way to activate that pop-up menu. It's really, really handy.

Hello community, has anyone the same problem as me? When I create new document in InDesign for web, application opens 4 new documents with the same name (for example "unnamed-1") and size. It happens when the box "preview" is checked. once you uncheck the box, InDesign suddenly creates the file "unnamed-5".

Seeing line on my monitor when using InDesign I am seeing lines on my 4K monitor when using Adobe InDesign and they are not always in the same place. They are only showing up when using Adobe InDesign right now. This tells me that it is an issue with Adobe and not the monitor.The odd thing about the lines is that when I zoom in on the document that shows the line they disappear. When I zoom back out the line is gone.This is irritating because it looks like lines in my document, and I have to make sure they are not actual lines in the document before I continue working on the document.I will attach a few images to show what I am referring to. I have a new laptop and 4k monitor.I went overboard on this laptop just to make sure it would handle Adobe products. Is there a fix for this?

Hi all,   I am not sure why but when I have text within a box and move it around a page with no text wrapping, even select the checkbox for 'ignore text wrap' the text disappears or moves within the box. i hope this makes sense. I can't work out why? thanks in advance.             <Title renamed by moderator>  

Hi everyone,I’m having a serious issue with an InDesign document (.inddc) that suddenly won’t open anymore. As soon as I try to open the file, InDesign crashes immediately without showing any error message. I’ve tested this in versions 20.2 and 20.3 – same result.Here’s what I’ve already tried:Reset InDesign preferencesRestarted my computerUploaded the file to the Creative CloudShared it with a second Adobe accountTransferred the file to that second account’s filesI also tried accessing and downloading the file both via the Creative Cloud desktop client and via the browser, but no luck – the file can’t be opened or downloaded from either account or interface. Still no specific error messages.Has anyone experienced something like this before or found a way to recover a file in this state?Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Looking for advice.I frequently need to locate Indesign files but cannot search via file name and need the ability to locate by other means.For example:I make maps and the files and respected folders need to be named by the subject matter CITY. So that subject matter city (let's call it Treeville), may be a suburb of Dallas TX for example and I would label the file/folders "Treeville TX". In order to save repeating building maps within a same general area, I can use a previously-made map file.Now, having a new map to make, I see it's a suburb of Dallas but have no way to look back thru files for a similar area maps because the file naming will not (and cannot/for reasons) contain the name Dallas and no way I would remember which small town/city files are suburbs of Dallas or Houston or San Antonio etc.So I need a way to (tag? Treeville) document ITSELF somehow WITHOUT IT BEING IN FILE NAME and I'm not talking tagging the elements within the document. I'm not even sure if tagging i

Hi!I have a small (or big?) problem. After I imported my long .doc document with hundreds of footnotes into InDesign, I found out that few (one or two) reference numbers (those in main text) are missing, but all footnotes are there, correctly imported.How can I add the reference number in text and link it to existing footnote? If I do the "Add a footnote" standard operation, then the reference is created, but also a new (empty) footnote container is created below the main text and all following footnotes (I mean their numbers) are moved by +1.Any tip, how to fix this?Thank you!

Hello!When changing the "baseline shift" of text, there is a value you can adjust up and down. It's only this way.However, when putting an object (image etc.) into flow text, you can also shift the object up and down to adjust its position,  so it seems to also be kind of a baseline shift.Nonetheless, this shift goes only by mouse and has no value. Being shifted, the object could even overlap a table cell edge.Is there a (hidden) value somewhere, so I could sort of reset that shift to zero with?