InDesign

Hi all! I am working on a report for a magazine. And annoyingly, the name of the magazine is all lowercase, including the first letters of all the words in the name. I have text in tables. I'm trying to do a find/replace to make these letters all lowercase. And it works... except for the first letter (which is the first letter in each cell). I though GREP would take care of this, but it doesn't. I don't know why... maybe because it's in a table? Anyway, is there a way to force find/replace to make NOT capitalize the first letter? I would think it would just do what I typed, but no such luck. Interestingly, I am able to do this with no issues in Illustrator, although I'm not using tables in that file. Thanks. 

I have recently upgraded both macOS (26.1) and InDesign (2026). Something that has always worked before in InDesign — resizing an image proportionally by holding down Shift and dragging — no longer works. The image’s proportions are no longer locked. Is this an InDesign issue, or should I blame MacOS?

I don't understand why some of the bookmarks look like anchors in the bookmarks tab. What is the difference, and how do I get them to all be the same? It's a cookbook with a MAIN TOC and separate sections, each with it's own TOC. And when I export to a PDF some bookmarks work & some do not. 

Users have been experiencing an annoying lag with InDesign when they click out then back into the application. I have read on the forums that with Mac, magnet is the cause and quitting it gets rid of it. Unfortunately, we are on Windows 11 and Magnet is not a feature on Windows. I have reached out to Adobe numerous times and they suggest clearing the pasteboard, changing all the possible performance settings, and resetting the InDesign folder in local by changing it to "InDesign_Backup" and then opening InDesign so it creates a new folder which I want to emphasize WORKS for about 3-4 days until the lag comes back and starts to progressivley get worse. Adobe suggested it may be due to the files being saved on a network drive rather than local. So we tested that and of course it was like night and day and there was no lag, but that is expected as opening any file locally will be way faster, and that doesn't explain why resetting the InDesign folder fixes it temporarily.  W

This is a frustrating issue that keeps coming up between our print department and me, the designer. I am making this postcard that is 6x9 inches with a 0.125 bleed. We use two versions when we data merge the addresses on. One version is just the artwork front and back, when exported with bleed and crop marks, the dimensions are 6.583 x9.583 in because of the .083 offset that the crop marks add. The first issue that came up was that our printers didn't want the data merged file to have any printer marks on it, so I sent them the merged file at 6x9 inches, because it didn't have bleed or crop marks. This led to another problem where the printers said they could not merge the two files because they were now two different sizes. To solve this, I manually started changing the page size of the merge file to be the 6.583x9.583 dimensions so that I could export it without any print marks at the same size as the art file. This worked for a long time, but now they are telling me that they dont n

Hi everyone.When my cursor is in the current text box, it looks like this.At this point, my current target of action, sel, is the current text box.var doc = app.activeDocument; var item = doc.selection[0]; var items; alert(item.constructor.name); if ( ("InsertionPoint" == item.constructor.name || "Character" == item.constructor.name || "Text" == item.constructor.name || "Word" == item.constructor.name || "Paragraph" == item.constructor.name) && "Table" != item.parent.parent.constructor.name ) { items = item.parentTextFrames; sel = items; alert(items);If I select all content in the current article,Now, I want my selection target (sel) to be every text Frame of this article. To be more precise, my target is the text box containing the selected text.For example, if an article has 10 text boxes and I select content from boxes 3 through 6, then my target objects are Frame3, Frame4, Frame5, and Frame6.How can I represent this

I work for a small marketing firm. We create posters on Indesign on our MACs both using OS 15. We have these tvs and digital displays that take USB sticks to display images. I understand that MACs create the underscore file that isn't real, but for some reason our regular jpg files do not show up on the screens either. This is an issue we have with multiple sticks (I've tried a range of sizes) and multiple types of TVs. I have ransacked the internet and am at a loss for how to fix this issue.  I have tried exporting at both lower and higher resolutions. The only common denominator is the Macs exporting the images. Has anyone experienced this issue and found a fix that works other than switching operating systems?

At our designstudio we are (forced to) using OneDrive as the cloud solution to store and maintain (mostly) InDesign files. Recently we had a project (an annual report) for a client wich has over 60 chapters/subchapters and a total of over 500 pages.So, previously (when we where working on a MS Fileserver) we decided to split it into several InDesign documents: every chapter (including a TOC) and subchapter as seperate InDesign files. This worked great, because several team-members could work on a single (sub)chapter of the entire document without interfering someone else.We collect all these seperate InDesign documents in a single InDesign book (a INDB file), create the separate TOC's and the general TOC wihout problems.But with OneDrive we are forced to generate the complete book locally on one of the designers' Mac. Why, because OneDrive can't cope with the fast opening/reindexing of files and pagenumbers etc. This usually results in InDesign files with the user name appendend to som

Necesito vuestra ayuda, en mi teclado no funciona la barra espaciadora en el programa Indesing, en el resto de programas  si A que podria deberse esto, he probado de todo, pero no encuentro solucióngracias de antemano

Hallo, ich arbeite in InDesign immer mit dem erweiterten Arbeitsbereich. Plötzlich finde ich bei der eingeblendeten Werkzeugleiste die drei Punkte bzw. das kleine Dreieck nicht mehr zum Anzeigen der kompletten Werkzeuge. Kann mir bitte jemand weiterhelfen? Wie komme ich zu den restlichen Werkzeugen?Schöne Grüße

Hello all, I am trying to export a file that has a couple of drop shadows in it. The drop shadows were created using the Stylize effect and Multiply option. I am exporting to PNG format at 300dpi without transparency. However, the objects in front of the drop shadows are becoming transparent, and only the drop shadow is showing in the PNG file. Here is what the file looks like in Illustrator: And this is what the file looks like when it is exported to PNG: Can anyone please provide a solution to this one? Thanks!Bron

Sometimes I need to add pdf files in Indesign. Since I have windows 11 have had troubles with importing the pdf file.  It stops loading midway and or the pages are empty. Plus have lost the page numbers in the parent pages.

I want to paste object group in text frame. but paste command is not active when i am paste in text frame. Please help me. 

Problem: I am unable to click and drag anything. This pertains to any box in ANY file in indesign. Only InDesign, I have tried this in photoshop as well just to make sure. What I have tried: (I am normally good at trouble shooting. This I cannot seem to figure out)Created a new shape, cannot move it.Added a new picture, cannot move it.I have even tried older indesign files.Tried a new computer mouseLayers / Images are not lockedDouble checked my version is 2024I tried 2025, then uninstalled 2025 to back to the older versionImages: I can not move a photo in the box as normal either I CAN:select the box (ANY box)make the size smaller or larger (by clicking on the white boxes and dragging)edit text with in the boxcopy paste and delete the boxMove the box using my arrow keys I attached a screen shot, although I am unsure it will help.

Since the latest update, randomly the flyout menus won't work. They don't flyout. When that happens, often the program freezes. When either of these things happen, I close the program and re-launch and things are back to normal until it happens again. Sometimes only 1 or 2 times during the day, but today it's happened 3 times.

Okay, I don't know if anyone else has this problem; however, I keep having it, and it's really annoying and frustrating because for some reason the Contextual Task Bar in Illustrator or InDesign keeps acting up by only moving in one place up and down not all over the screen like it should be and I've tried to save all my stuff, exit out, and reopen as well as turning it off in the Window section of both applications and nothing and I have no idea how to fix this so if anyone knows a permant solution to this please tell me cause I'm lost and I would really appericate it so much! Thanks so much in advance!-vevegirl13

Hello everyone,we got a pretty weird problem here at the office. A co-worker (who doesn't work here anymore, which might not be an important information, but at least she can't really help me out here) created a CC-Libraries folder containing all styles for paragraphs, textboxes and so on - containing placeholder content -  for a whole magazine-production. So when setting up a new layout, the layouter now just drags and drops elements out of the CC-library into the new layout and they then get filled with editorial contents. This worked fine with one production but now (that she's gone) I suddenly had the problem, that in some finalized layouts, when I open the file, some textboxes (or in some files only a few) with the little cloud-icon that originate in the cc-library-master would suddenly just be overwritten with the placeholder text of these text-box elements. When our new layouter would open the same file, all textboxes would be perfectly fine. When she would generate a PDF o

This feature was installed without my knowing it. It slows down my workflow because it takes forever to do a conversion and the cancel button doesn't work. I've accidentally activated it about four times today. I want to turn it off/uninstall it, but the Adobe page describing the feature doesn't tell me how. It's a beta, so I should be able to opt out. Anyone know how?

Hello,I am trying to troubleshoot a "broken" indesign template. The numbering system is currently broken. It doesn't increment when new elements are added. And the existing content starts at X.9 and instead of X.1.  Is anything wrong apparent from the settings of the numbering?Thank you for your assistance.Charlie

I am working on the cover for my employer's next seasonal newsletter, and I am running into a problem with some graphics. They are on a transparent background, and I suspect that has everything to do with it, but I don't know how to solve the issue and I am hoping someone can help. Disclaimer: I am not really a graphic designer, I am a library assistant who makes a seasonal newsletter for their employer (LOL), so I apologize if this is an common, easy to solve issue - I have not run into it before today. I am tring to make the newsletter title font look like it's sitting in some freshly-fallen snow, so I have all these white graphics that look like small piles of snow, and I am using them to create a 3-D effect on a white background by layering them on top of my font, along the bottom edge. I also have some light blue graphics that are meant to look like ice, and they are set on top of the title font across the top, to look like hanging icicles. It all looks great in Indesign

InCopy on the web (beta) "Share for Text Editing (beta) this function is not yet available in InDesign in Italian even in version 21. Why? When will it be released?Is there a release timeline?King regardsfilippo

I've done this before, but it always feels a bit slow. It seems to take a long time.I need to first check if the myDat group exists, then verify if it contains the dat1@A@B@C style.If the myDat group doesn't exist or the dat1@A@B@C style is absent, create them.If they exist, read the values of A, B, and C into temp1, temp2, and temp3 respectively.Of course, A, B, and C are variables—I'll assign values to them in other ways.Thanks. 

Hi,I am a university student trying to help a professor fix a template with a broken numbering system. I have been seeking help on the forums for a month. While the responses have provided helpful suggestions for troubleshooting, I have not been able to identify the issue in my document. I am wondering if there are any adobe forum admins who would be able to connect me with a product expert for a support session.Thank you.

Buen día, preciso la versión 19.5.4 de InDesign pero no la encuentro disponible en Creative Cloud.

Bonjour,Je travaille avec la dernière version d'in design sous Mac OS Mojave, et IMPOSSIBLE d'assembler mes fichiers pour un export vers nos clients. Mon fichier est propre, aucune erreur ne remonte dans le panneau de contrôle d'assemblage, je choisis le nom et l'emplacement du futur dossier, et invariablement, quel que soit le document, voici ce que m'affiche indesign:Une idée de ce que je peux faire ?