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The cursor goes to the left of a letter when I click on it with the type tool

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
January 31, 2019
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In Indesign, when I click on a letter, the cursor goes to the left of that letter instead of the right. This happens even if I click at the right most side of that letter. Usually, if you click on the left side of the letter, the cursor goes before it and if you click on the right side, the cursor goes after the letter. This was the case since I have been using indesign, but after update to CC2019, this problem has started.

Correct answer Michael22043043iyx1

Simply go to the hamburger drop down in your Paragraph tab. Choose "Adobe Paragraph Composer". This fixed the issue for me.

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Michael22043043iyx1Correct answer

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Simply go to the hamburger drop down in your Paragraph tab. Choose "Adobe Paragraph Composer". This fixed the issue for me.

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AbdAllah30270204fe74

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I cannot thank you enough for showing this, after hours of searching it's finally fixed for me. That was very simple and very helpful.

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Michael22043043iyx1

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Glad it worked for you as well.
Thank you,

*Michael Chapman*
Graphic Designer / Product Developer

ywoolf

Participating Frequently

I have the same issue. I have the English with Hebrew version installed. MacBook Pro.

Joel Cherney

Community Expert

If you have the Hebrew version installed, then you can probably choose the "Left-to-Right Paragraph Direction" button. Choosing the "Adobe Paragraph Composer" achieves the same end, but only because the Adobe Paragraph Composer doesn't support right-to-left text. If you ever need to typeset any Hebrew, you'd have to make sure that the World-Ready Composer was selected instead.

gun1974

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I have got the same issue. I have it with InDesign CC 2015 and now again with InDesign CC 2019 with my german versions. Very annoing. Deleting preferences or caches doesn’t make anything better.

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Hi Shreyk:

Since it isn't a language issue, Uwe is likely on the right track by suspecting that it is preferences issue.

This post addresses resetting preferences using three options: keyboard command, manually deleting files and finally regenerating the cache files: https://www.rockymountaintraining.com/adobe-indesign-resetting-preferences-and-deleting-the-cache/.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

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Laubender

Community Expert

shreyk95619934 wrote
…but after update to CC2019, this problem has started.

Hm. I cannot see this issue with my German version of InDesign CC 2019 14.0.1.209 on Windows 10 Pro.

What's your exact version of InDesign? What's your operating system?

Are there other apps running when this happens? Perhaps browsers with plugins that enforce the behavior?

Regards,
Uwe

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Hi shreyk95619934:

You can check your app language in the CC Desktop app:

Click the three vertical dots to the right of your Avatar > Preferences
Creative Cloud > Apps > App Language

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

Bill Silbert

Community Expert

It sounds like you may have accidentally installed a different language version of InDesign than the one that you need. Try uninstalling InDesign through the desktop app but before reinstalling go into the Desktop app preferences and change the language to the one that you need.