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November 28, 2017
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Indesign 2018 Cut and paste text box changes text orientation

  • November 28, 2017
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When I cut and paste a text box where the type is centered in the box it changes it to the type being flush to the top of the box.

Is this a bug or something I can fix in preferences.

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Correct answer rob day

Its the Vertical Alignment in the text box, it changes from Centered to Top Aligned when pasted into a new document.

Object styles work the same way as Paragraph and Character Styles. If you paste an object with a style assigned into another document, which contains the same named style (i.e., Basic Text Frame), the destination's style is used. If you set the text frame's Object Style to [None] in the source document it won't change when you paste into the destination document.

If you want to prevent new objects from being assigned a style as you create them, close all documents and set the default style in the Object Style panel to [None].

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Barb Binder
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 28, 2017

Are you cutting and pasting from one document to another? If so, I'd guess that you have different object style settings and the frame is taking on the settings in the new file. If not, providing more details will help us help you.

~Barb

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Mike Witherell
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 28, 2017

I'll bet you are right, Barb. I prefer to set InDesign's Object Styles panel, with no documents open, to None in order to consciously avoid this problem for future documents. I like a frame to carry a style only when I know I want to use one.

Mike Witherell
Jeffrey_A_Wright
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November 28, 2017

Moving this discussion to the InDesign forum.