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March 4, 2022
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Indesign edit menu greyed out

  • March 4, 2022
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Hi, 

Most of my edit menu greyed out. 

I uninstall Indesign but still is not working. 

 

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Frans v.d. Geest
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 27, 2023

You haven't selected anything, tha is why.

BUT... I can see you have a missing font (pink background on text) and overset (red +) everywhere...

John Mensinger
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 4, 2022

Menus are context-specific. Without anything selected, those unavailable commands have nothing on which to operate. The ones that aren't disabled are available because, for instance, there's something on the clipboard available to paste, so the Paste command is active. If the clipboard was empty, Paste too would be unavailable.

Kustenklar
Inspiring
April 27, 2023

I have the same problem. Working in indesign my edit menu suddenly wont work, nor my shortcuts like Cmd+z, help! I use these all the time in indesign so it's something wrong.

Barb Binder
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 27, 2023

Hi @Kustenklar :

 

Please share a screenshot of the Edit menu, with something selected in the background. This is normal behavior when you open the Edit menu without anything selected. See images below.

 

Frame selected on the page:

No frame selected on the page:

 

~Barb

 

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
Randy Hagan
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 4, 2022

I believe I can help here.

 

You need to select something to edit within your InDesign document before you can edit it. I suspect that if you select any element placed within your document and return to the Edit pull-down menu, you'll be able to see many more options for how you can edit that selected element.

 

For what it's worth, I don't know this because I'm Rhodes Scholar-bright about working with Adobe InDesign. I believe I quickly recognized your issue because I've screwed up that way before.

 

Hope this helps,

 

Randy

jmlevy
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 4, 2022

Seeing your screenshot, it seems that nothing is selected in your document, so I do not see anything unusual in the Edit menu. What do you try to do that does not work?