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Inconsistent Text Selection with Double-Click and Triple-Click in InDesign CC

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July 18, 2013
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Since we updated to CC, I have a very good chance of this not working evey time I try it. Maybe 10% of the time, it will select the word/line as it should. My prefs are identical for this feature as they have for the past several version of InDesign. We have the same problem on two Macs here. My partner also has trouble with copy/paste in InDesign and Illustrator as well.

Anyone experiencing the same?

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abrahamh16

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Ok, how much piling on before ADOBE gets this fixed?!?!? It seems like the whole UI with the keyboard shortcuts is buggy. All my usual key board shortcuts of switching between tools is not working like it used to. Very hit or miss, and I am all about speed and this is slowing me down big time!! UGH!

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teejaystudio

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Well. After a bit of disgust and frustration, I decided to check out some of my drivers. I actually was able to match the "no triple click" issue to a Wacom driver that auto-updated a few weeks ago. Around the time I started being frustrated by no more triple click functionality. I dug around quite a bit and was able to locate the Wacom Intuous Tablet driver previous to the newest one... 6.3.15-3 and reinstalled it over the newer 6.3.16-12 (MAC VERSIONS HERE).

I have completely restored triple (and quadrupal) click functionality.

I wonder if others A) Have Wacom tablets that may be the culprit or B) have new drivers from recent OS updates that could be causing this. Maybe the problem correction I used can help others. Certainly none of the software/hardware companies are helping much.

Best of luck everyone.

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Budd Tugley

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Hey that could be possible I'm running a Wacom as well. I will investigate.

Thanks.

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SteveIsHere

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Piling on. I'm running CC 2015.2 on Windows 7 and the triple click often doesn't select the entire paragraph.

Details: If I'm displaying split view with Code and Design, and I triple-click in the Design view (on characters, between characters, fast or slow, it doesn't matter), the entire paragraph (within p and /p) is selected in code, but not in the Design view. If I'm only displaying Design view (no code, no split), the triple click doesn't APPEAR to do anything, but if I then press Delete, the entire paragraph is deleted (as if the paragraph was selected)!

If you are "piling on" to this message, you should also fill out a bug report at Feature Request/Bug Report Form so this gets fixed.

UPDATE: I deleted a paragraph and now the triple-click is working. Strange! Very inconsistent.

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teejaystudio

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Version CC 2015 .3 here. Piling on after submitting a bug report. Even purchased a new Wacom mouse because I thought that was the issue... UGH.

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Budd Tugley

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Also piling on. I have this issue with CC 2015. I also had it with CC 2014, when I first noticed that the behavior had changed. I thought I was crazy but seeing this thread I guess not. Working on a 2014 Mac Pro.

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scfree

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Piling on—I have the problem as well, CC 2015 on a 2009 Mac Pro. Cant multi-click to select AT insertion point, but if I move cursor any direction I can multi-click-select as usual...

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peter.prusa

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Im on PC and just upgraded to CC, having the same problem. Triple and Quad click is completely unreliable now.

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H Chinaski

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+1 on this. I (almost) always have to double-click twice because nothing gets selected the first time.

Skriftklog's observation (#7) that one has to click the text frame first, then double-click to highlight, is exactly what I've discovered too. The behaviour in previous versions was much better.

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smk17

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Same problem here, just upgraded to CC on a brand new Mac Pro (3.7 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5)

If I select the Type tool, triple clicking on text will not work the first time. It only works the second time. Annoying. After getting it to work and you stay with the text tool selected, triple clicking on any text works as you'd expect. But if you switch to the arrow for instance, then go back to the type tool, it will not work again the first time. Always amazed at how upgrades seem to send me backwards each time.

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Anonymous

I have the same problem as well, it works somethimes and sometimes not,

especially when I copy paste some selected text

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RickGroff

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Same here and on many computers. A lot of things don't function quite the same in CC as they did in all previous versions. Some dialogue boxes are a problem: Used to be you'd press Cmd+J to Jump to a specific page, type a number, and hit Enter. Most of the time now I have to actually place the cursor in the dialogue box before I can type in the number. And sometimes it works as before. Sometimes not.

The ability to use the numeric keypad as an editing keypad is no longer there, which is a pain to get used to. I used it ALL the time for editing before CC.

I run across other UI differences that don't make sense and are pretty frustrating, but I can't remember all of them now.

I'm sure they must be working on another update to address a lot of these. Aren't they!?

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6alax1an

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I have the same problem since upgrading to CC from CS 6. You are supposed to be able to use Indesign for text editing. Right?

Charlie

Macbook Air mid-2012 with Yosemite 10.10.1 and InDesign 2014.1