Hidden Keyboard Shortcut to Resize Frames

Hey Thomas, I have to get going so a few last thoughts, and I'll check in again tomorrow:

It's there, though and extremely useful, if someone can explain how to get it to work 100 percent of the time.

1. I haven't seen any reported bugs with this feature, but it's not used often so perhaps that's the issue. If you suspect a bug, you can report it here: Adobe InDesign Feedback. I use it and haven't experienced the inconsistency. Again, I'm on Mojave 10.14.6 and InDesign 14.0.2.
2. We do get frequent reports of other applications interfering with the modifier keys in InDesign. Anti-virus apps, malware apps and browser extensions are reported back as the culprits. Perhaps another application is interfering with Cmd or Opt.
3. When InDesign begins to behave erratically, it may help to rebuild preferences and cache. See .https://www.rockymountaintraining.com/adobe-indesign-rebuilding-preferences-cache/

~Barb

Hi Thomas:

Does anyone know the keyboard shortcut to proportionally resize frames in InDesign 2019?

You can hold Cmd+Sh while resizing a frame to resize the frame and contents and maintain the aspect ratio. Is that what you are looking for?

Or you can select the frame with the Selection tool and use Opt+Cmd+. (period) to scale both up incrementally by 5%. Or Cmd+. to scale by 1%. Decrease is the same, but substitute a comma for the period.

~Barb

Edit: the period and comma share the same key as the < and > which is what you mentioned in your question. Were you adding the shift key to get the < and >? That would disable the scaling commands.