Questions

I would like to see a "Delete Empty Text Boxes" option for InDesign to help clean up stray artifacts in a document. I think there was one ages ago, unless that was QuarkXpress!

Hallo, ich habe das Problem in Indesign, dass bei jeder Aktion, die ich mache (sogar das Starten des Programms diese Warnmeldungaufploppt: Diese Änderung kann nicht mit dem Befehl "Bearbeiten" >"Rückgängig" widerrufen werden. Möchten Sie trotzdem fortfahren?AbbrechenOKJe nachdem, was ich anklicke, wird meine letzte Aktion rückgängig gemacht oder Indesign stürtzt ab. Weoss jemand, woran das liegt?

Bonjour,  J'ai depuis peu un souci avec mon InDesign. Lorsque je l'ouvre, la souris se met à charger par intermittence, presque en clignotant. Cela ne pose pas de problème apparent hors du logiciel, mais sur l'interface de ce dernier, impossible d'effectuer quelconque manipulation. La souris semble cliquer en continu, je ne peux séléctionner aucun élément, ouvrir aucun panneau etc. Si quelqu'un aurait une solution pour m'aider,  je ne sais pas quoi faire, j'ai déjà réinitialisé mes préférences, j'ai désinstallé et réinstallé le logiciel, rien ne change. Je suis en études de design graphique et ne peux donc pas me passer du logiciel... Merci d'avance 🙂

For some reason, when I export PDFs, the spaces between words appear as rectangles with Xs in them. This has never happened before -- I've worked with this document a number of times and it's been fine. Don't know why this is happening now and nothing I do seems to work. I've tried changing the export preferences and replacing the font and it doesn't change. I have to export a clean PDF for approval ASAP. Please help!

Hi all, I have a catalogue design for a company where all the products info fields are edited as necessary in a spreadsheet. Whenever stocks/prices change these spreadsheets are edited by that department, I open the catalogue design .indd file and update the linked spreadsheets in the design with the 'modified links' prompt. This has been working brilliantly for a number of years now and keeps all the different departments happy with their roles in the updating process.  I've opened the document this week and all the spreadsheet files are returning error symbols in the links panel. When I try to relink them, I recieve the error box "Cannot Place this file. No filter found for requested operation."  The file types being linked are .xlsx files. I've tried opening the file in two versions of InDesign - Adobe InDesign CC 2019 (14.0.3) and Adobe InDesign 2020 (15.1.3) I've tried closing and relaunching and resaving the spreadsheets and turning the computer itself of

Is there a way to convert content that's been created via Data Merge to "standard" content?I removed the Data Source, but the hidden characters indicating Data Merged content are still there: Thanks 

Hi everyone, I have a problem with InDesign. I need to compose some text in Japanese, but with the font loaded correctly, it doesn't display the ideograms. Thanks to anyone who can help me.

El color negro de CMYK que viene por defecto en el programa, sobreimprime siempre. En atributos no indica la sobreimpresión y tampoco deja modificarla. Alguna solución?

I was hoping ID 2020 would finally give me a much desired feature. But no, it still isn't there. Maybe someone has a solutiuon for my problem? I use a LOT of text frames with for instance one or two rounded corners. When a text frame is a regular regtangle you can set inset spacing for all sides but as soon as you make a corner rounded you only have ONE inset spacing option... which is driving me crazy because I use different inset spacing setting for all sides all the time... and now I have to make duplicates of all my text frames, remove the text from it, place it underneath the text frame, add a corner effect and then change the inset spacing of the original text frame... if you still know what I mean. Resizing these frames is a core... Is it really so hard to give us text frames with rounded corners and still an inset spacing option for all sides...? Why doesn't ID 2020 have this option? And how do you all solve this problem? 

In InDesign, when all links in a document are missing, the workflow is very inefficient. Right now, I have to:1. Click the first missing link,2. .Shift-click the last one to select them all,3. Choose Relink to Folder…,4. .Then finally pick the correct folder.This should be possible in one step.Please add a small icon or button in the Links panel (or in the Missing Links dialog) that immediately opens the Relink to Folder dialog for all missing links at once.This would save a huge amount of repetitive clicking, especially in large documents.

Hi everyone. I am looking for a way to make a keyboard shortcut to “Break link to paragraph style”. I have tried to do it the usual way, but when I use the new shortcut, it changes (its not kept as it is). Does anyone have a solution for this? 

Hello! I've been having issues with InDesign. The app will open, but when I try to create a new file or open an old one it crashes not just the app, but my entire display. The screen goes black with my mouse pointer still there and moving. I can't even CTL+ALT+DEL to get task manager up to force it to quit. I've updated everything I can, including the graphics display drivers. I uninstalled and reinstalled InDesign. All of my other apps seem to work ok, but I really need InDesign for a project I'm working on. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

To say I am a novice at InDesign would be to insult most novices.  But I do put out a decent product knowing just what I need to know and bumbling my way through the rest.So today I am working and suddenly my tools palette disappears.  I closed the program, waited a bit, and then restarted it.  It is still missing.  I rebooted my maching (Win7).  No tools palette.  I went back to another project hoping I did something on this project that made it disappear and it would show up elsewhere.  Nope.I though that maybe it was just missing from my screen so I made the screen smaller (seeing lots of pages) hoping it had slid all the way to the left.  Nope.Nothing I do seems to bring it back.  Of course I first went into Windows and there it was checked.  I unchecked it and shut down.  Started up again and it had remained unchecked.  I checked it and my page shifted a bit to the right but still no tolls palette.Can anyone help me?Thank

pdf to indesign  (beat ) editable not working ?!

I'm having a problem with my published document here: https://indd.adobe.com/view/499aa923-8fed-445f-89ad-b20d537b7204.  No one can download the PDF. A previous user here in the forums had the same problem and it was special characters in the URL.  I don't put special characters in the name, but they are appearing on the error message URL as [working_document].pdf. It seems that InDesign adds this additional phrase to my URL (doc is named "2025 MBU Catalog"), and I don't know how to remove it. 

The latest InDesign version 21 isn't appearing in Creative Cloud available updates. I can't open a shared file as the file is saved in version 21, so it wants me to convert the file. How can I make the latestest InDesign version appear? I've reset, sign-in/out, installs all updated avail etc...  

Hello.Upon opening the most recent version of my InDesign book,I get the Book Panel window. Choosing a chapter, I try and openthat Chapter. An InDesign window pops up telling me it is opening withone button to cancel. However, it never opens and if I click"cancel", cancel never occurs or finishes. It shows a progress wheel thatnever ends, completes or stops.If I "Force Quit" InDesign, then close down Mac OS or restart, thatwindow is gone. I cannot close InDesign when that window is open. When I try and open a chapter from the Book Panel window, I get the same result.I do not know what the problem is. Any suggestions from anyoneabout this sort of thing?Each book version has its own dated folder.The version before this most recent one has all my images and fonts in it but I have already embedded my images, so if I understand this, once embedded, a new version, in a new folder, should not have a problem if images are embedded and remain in the last folder.But that may not be why I get thi

The latest update, 20.5, has removed the Center Reference Point from objects except when using Transformation Tools. This makes using the Selection Tool to move and center an object difficult. Is there a way to get the Center Reference Point back? I've searched the menus and internet, to no avail.

Bonjour,J'ai un problème depuis que j'ai réinstallé mes logiciels sur mon nouveau Macbook pro : quand je travaille, en jonglant sur les 3 logiciels Photohop, Illustrator et InDesign, mes fichiers liés ne se mettent pas à jour et un message apparait quand je veux mettre à jour les fichiers : "le fichier est deja ouvert par un utilisateur ou utilisé par une autre application. S'il est stocké sur un serveur de réseau, vous ne pouvez pas l'ouvrir tant que l'autre utilisateur ne l'a pas refermé".Je travaille sur Google Drive, mais seule, je ne partage mes dossiers avec personne d'autre.Quelqu'un peut-il m'aider à régler cela ? Merci d'avance,

I get this error when trying to open the new InDesign 2026 version:"Adobe InDesign 2026.app" is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to the Trash.I've tried installing it twice with the same result. I put the InDesign 2025 back and it opens fine. 

I'm working on a product catalog in InDesign, and when I select my .csv Data Source nothing is populating. I've done these many times before, and there is nothing wrong with my template or excel based file.  I've tried restarting my computer, logging out of CC, moving the InDesign file to a new document, and resaving the Excel file as a .csv.  I should mention that on earlier versions of the .csv file a few days ago, everything merged perfectly. Any ideas as to why nothing happens when I select "data source"? Thanks very much!

Estoy teniendo problemas en la sincronizacion de algunos archivos en indesign que tengo guardados en la nube de creative cloudIntento abrir el archivo luego de haber realizados mejoras en mi PC y no logra sincronizarloNo sucede en todos los archivos solo en el último que trabajé antes de que mi PC fuera al servicio técnico.En paralelo uso otra notebook en la cual he podido trabjar perfectamente otros archivos. En esa notebook tampoco lo pudo sincronizar Otra prueba que realicé es abrir un achivo que si funciona, aplicar cambios y volverlo a guardar en la nube. Si bien aprententemente el archivo se guardó, cuando intento compartirlo me indica que "está guardando", lo cual me da la pauta que no estan sincronizados los cambios con la nube.  Alguien mas tuvo el problema? alguna solucion? 

Hi - Trying to open an .indd file from 2000. Have tried in all previous InDesign versions back to 2000, and also on previous old iMacs and laptops. Always get this message: "Cannot open the file "resume.indd". Adobe InDesign may not support the file format, a plug-in that supports the file format may be missing, or the file may be open in another application." As previously suggested in another thread, deleting an ~ace file would do the trick. Am not locating any pertinent file containing ~ace. I've also tried other suggestions in other threads. Nada. Any thoughts?? Thanks! 

I updated to InDesign 2026 and find If I double click a file to open in Finder window InDesign crashes. The same happens if after opening InDesign, I see previously opened files and double click the one I want to open, it crashes. It also happens when I choose File/Open/"file" If I reopen InDesign after crash the crashed file opens with it as Untitled file. Please advise

Hello,I've tried every possibilities I know of (formatting word, using different import options, updating fonts...) but can't solve this one. Placing does not work with cyrillic bold italic, only copy paste. The text is a 450+ pages novel and I'm reluctant to use copy paste as a standard workflow for future project.Can someone help?Thanks