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Tabs arrow disappear in InDesign 2026(21.0)

Forum|Forum|3 months ago
October 30, 2025
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After the 2026 InDesign update, when I move the tabs in the text box forward or backward by moving the arrows, the tabs on the right side of the tab I moved disappear, I have to start the tab from the beginning every time, I couldn't find a solution.

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Abhishek Rao

Community Manager

Hello everyone,

I appreciate all the information shared throughout this discussion. I understand how annoying the tab behavior has been in version 21.0, particularly when it disrupts your layout every time you attempt to modify a tab. The product team has issued a hotfix today with version 21.0.1, which addresses this issue. When you have a moment, please update to the latest version and verify if the tabs are functioning normally again. You can also check the release notes here: https://adobe.ly/3K9Gzox

If you continue to experience the issue after updating, please inform me so that I can take it further.

Abhishek

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Ade28515761s255

Participant

So come on Adobe this is creating REAL problems in the REAL world, we use tabbed text in a whole range of work we produce and this is killing us! Sure it can't be beyond the wit of your MASSIVE highly paid team to put this right in a few weeks, FIX IT NOW. Othewise InDesign isn't fit for purpose!!! INDD suddenly looking like Canva!!!

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conny_0768

Participant

wenn man mehre Tabulatoren gesetzt hat und diese fein justieren will, also verschieben, werden automatisch die anderen gelöscht. Egal ob man über Absatzformat oder direkt im Text mit der Tabulator-Funktion arbeitet.
Meine ganze Abteilung hat dieses Problem und wir wissen nicht wie wir es beheben können. Sind darauf aber dringend angewiesen. Ist ja auch Grundfunktion.

BobLevine

Community Expert

This is a known bug. There is no workaround beyond going back to an earlier version of InDesign.

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msdworks

Participant

When something is working why does Creative Cloud muck it up....??? This plus a price increase is not appreciated

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ChrisRoweMedia

Participating Frequently

Yes - completely broken. Trying to move a tab either picks up another tab, picks up nothing, or deletes all the tabs to the right and ruins the document. Tabs have always been a weak spot in InDesign (even Word does tabs better!) but this is just totally broken.

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G_Man

Inspiring

I agree. I wish Adobe would give Tabs a massive overhaul. It hasn't changed one bit since the beginning of time. It's a finicky process at best and tedious.

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Marios342806572bbb

Participating Frequently

Hi there.

I have a problem with indesign version 21.0x64

I have a table setup with tabs not cells. Everytime i try to fine tune the tub it deletes the next ones.

Any thoughts about that?

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Anubhav M

Community Manager

Hello @Marios342806572bbb,

I'm sorry to hear about your experience. Our product team is aware of the problem and is currently investigating it. We will update this thread as we have more info. You can also follow and upvote the UserVoice (https://adobe.ly/3LqXCCO) to get the latest updates.

Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions or require assistance. We'd be happy to help.

Anubhav

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Marios342806572bbb

Participating Frequently

Thank you very much

user7346522

Participant

Hello all.

It seems that the latest InDesign updates are messing up tabs. I am experiencing that if I have multiple tabs implemented that as soon as I try to move a tab, all the others dissappear and I need to re-implement all the tabs again. This is quite time consuming and quite frankly, annoying. Let me know if there is a fix.

Thanks

Sam

G_Man

Inspiring

Yup this is causing major problems with my work flow. Left-hand tabs suddenly become right-hand tabs when the position is moved, leader dots just disappear, plus a total inability to set more than two tabs, then one vanishes. Driving me nuts today trying to fix this. C'mon Adobe!!

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Janet34666034pizs

Participant

I just updated to InDesign 21.0 running on a Mac running Tahoe 26.0.1. The tab panel is behaving strangely. When placing multiple tabs and then moving any one of those multiple tabs, all other tabs disappear. I have to constantly replace tabs to get text to line up as needed. I have used InDesign since the days of PageMaker so I'm fairly certain this is a bug in the latest release.

Abhishek Rao

Community Manager

Hi @gazete_7218,

Thanks for reporting this. This is a known issue, and a bug has already been logged with the product team. They're actively working on a fix for it. You can follow this UserVoice thread for the latest updates and progress on the issue: https://adobe.ly/47uYOfN.

Appreciate your patience while the team works to resolve this.

Please keep an eye on the uservoice for any announcements or version updates that include the fix.

Abhishek

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ChrisRoweMedia

Participating Frequently

With respect, it's not good enough to keep asking for our patience when what is blatently broken is so fundamental to using the package! Adobe have absolutely zero patience if we are a minute pate with paying our subscription, so asking us to wait for what is now two weeks from this being highlighted and recognised as an issue is not acceptable. Can you at least give us a link to the previous version so we can reinstall that and have a working version!

Not good enough.

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msdworks

Participant

So agree. What with the price increase, we the subscribers should be getting BUG FREE updates. Not this nonsense.

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