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MonaSMA
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August 14, 2018
Question

Can't scroll through swatches panel with arrow keys

  • August 14, 2018
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I'm working in InDesign CC 2018 (on iMac) and am unable to scroll through my swatches in the swatches panel using the arrow keys. The same for the New Color Swatch panel. I've already checked my scrolling options in system preferences and InDesign preferences, but nothing seems related to this problem.

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John Mensinger
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 14, 2018

MonaSMA  wrote

. . . and am unable to scroll through my swatches in the swatches panel using the arrow keys.

Were you ever able to do that?

I've been running InDesign since the first release and I'm not sure any of InDesign's panels have ever supported arrow-key scrolling.

MonaSMA
MonaSMAAuthor
Participant
August 14, 2018

Yes. Before we switched to the Creative Cloud, we were still using CS6, and I used the arrow keys for scrolling through swatches regularly.

Community Expert
August 14, 2018

Really?
Cannot do this with CS6 version 8.1.0 on Windows 10 (1803)

I'm surprised as you, because I thought I was able to scroll through with the arrow keys as well.

Hm. Maybe that was an Mac OS X-only feature? Recently I switched to Windows…

Regards,
Uwe