Just discovered a really strange bug when working with form fields in InDesign. If you copy a form field using the Selection tool and paste, it pastes as a form field. However if you copy the form field with the type tool active by holding down cmd/ctrl and then paste, it loses it's form field properties and just pastes as a frame. Anyone else encounter this?
Hi Chad,
seen into your video. Ahem, that's a typical user error.
You did not select the form field after you switched to the Text tool.
You selected the contents of the form field. The object, a rectangle, within.
From my German InDesign where the selected object has the generic name <Rechteck> (Rectangle) :
To get this right in the moment you selected the contents, just hit the Esc key to get the selection of the form field.
That's all, I think. Also look into the Layers panel and check what you exactly selected.
Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Professional )
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