Why is find/change missing "selection" as option to search?

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March 3, 2019
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I am working in Indesign CC 2019 on a document that will not show "selection" when perfoming find/change.

It only show document as the option to search. How do I restore all the options (selection, story, etc.). ?? Mike

Correct answer Steve Werner

In Find/Change, the Selection option only appears when you have made a selection in text. It's working in InDesign CC 2019 for me as you can see in this screen capture:

If it's not working, you might try restoring InDesign preferences:

Set preferences in Adobe InDesign

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pushabutton123

Participant

This behavior is super confusing in CC 2020. Spent 20 minutes try to figure out why story and selection wouldn't show. Thanks for another unnecessary change to something that wasn't broken for the last 20 years.

Jongware

Community Expert

So you did figure it out? What has changed, exactly?

Steve Werner

Correct answer

Community Expert

In Find/Change, the Selection option only appears when you have made a selection in text. It's working in InDesign CC 2019 for me as you can see in this screen capture:

If it's not working, you might try restoring InDesign preferences:

Set preferences in Adobe InDesign