Ability to scroll box corners

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August 14, 2021
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Just upgraded to Adobe InDesign CC. Right away, I encounter the frustration of a vital feature missing. When I click on a picture to change the corners, I can no longer SCROLL through the options (Fancy, Bevel, etc.). Instead, I have to click on the icon each time and then click on each choice individually! That's 12 clicks instead of one click and one scroll!! Please restore!

Feature request

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Ashutosh_Mishra

Inspiring

Hi @snooque,

Sorry to hear about your experience. Peter has suggested some great troubleshooting steps. In addition to those, I'd recommend following this community post & let us know if they help with your concern.

Looking forward to your response.

Regards,

Ashutosh

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snooqueAuthor

Inspiring

I've had no luck, having received mixed messages: simultaneouos scroll & preview for corner options (and effects/blending modes) on a selected box is and is not a bug; is and is not possible; does and does not exist. By 'scroll' I mean using the arrow keys to scroll up and down to preview the options without having to click, reopen, click, reopen, etc. I've asked and searched and tried every suggestion. It seems a very odd feature to go missing. It's still possible to scroll/preview fonts and colours in a selected box, for example, but not corners and blends (which was possible in CS4, CS6). I recently subscribed to CC with a new laptop, so there's no messiness to account for these missing features I often use/need. BTW, I didn't see anything on the community post link about this issue. I did submit it as a bug, and it seems this feature did not make the leap from CS to CC. Thanks for checking in!

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snooqueAuthor

Inspiring

Wow, perhaps it was the recent CC update ... Eugene Tyson had earlier suggested I try Shift-Tab to activate the scroll/preview function for Effects. It worked until Peter Spier suggested I open in safe mode to sort out any possible conflicts. After that the shift-tab solution stopped working. TODAY, on a whim, I tried again (I try almost every day). Shift-Tab (on 'Opacity') not only activated scroll/preview for Effects, it also activated the scroll/preview function for Corner Options!! Thank you for everyone's input and patience.

Peter Spier

Community Expert

I'm not seeing any difference here from CS6. I'm on Windows 10.

Alt-click the corner effect badge to cycle through the options (which does all four corners at once) or use the Object Menu to go to the Corner Effects dialog where you can choose from a drop-down and do each corner individually or click the chain link to do them all. If you want them the same, Alt-click seems faster.

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snooqueAuthor

Inspiring

Desktop / InDesign 16.3 x64: The problem is that I cannot cycle through the options and see/preview the corner options on the box I've selected (same problem with Effects / Blending Modes) unless I click on it. Each time I have to click on the option to see it, then the list closes, and I have to re-open the list and click on another option to see it, then the list closes, etc. That's 12 clicks just to get through the list if I so choose. In earlier versions of InDesign (CS 2, 4, 6) I've always been able to 'scroll' the list with the arrow key(s) to preview the options on the selected box. I can scroll and preview in other CC lists (e.g., fonts) but not the two I've noted here. They are lists I use all the time, so the inability to scroll and preview is frustrating. Given that you are able to scroll, if it's not a bug in InDesign for Windows then what is the fix? I've searched Preferences with no luck.