How do I silence the InDesign notifications? I don't want to mute my computer. When do a find and replace function and use the keyboard's ALT + A to replace all instances, I get a bong noise. I'd like to stop the noise. Thanks.
That sound isn’t technically an InDesign feature you can disable inside the app. It’s Windows giving you the default system alert sound (InDesign just triggers it).
ALT + A isn’t a standard shortcut in InDesign for “Replace All”, the official button is called - Replace All. But by pressing ALT + A, Windows interprets it as a menu accelerator and InDesign fires off a “ding” because the shortcut doesn’t exist.
That’s why you’re hearing the noise. It’s not an “InDesign notification” in the same sense as alerts or popups.
Use the Replace All button with the mouse no sound.
You might be able to Customise the shortcut: In Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts, they try to assign a shortcut to “Replace All” and avoid the ALT + A conflict.
System-level workaround
You could technically change the “Default Beep” sound in Windows Sound Settings to “None” but that removes the ding across the whole system, not just InDesign.
The cleanest fix is: don’t use ALT + A, give yourself a proper shortcut for Replace All.
Hope that helps.
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