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Align to Key Object not working in Illustrator 2020 (24.2)

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June 16, 2020
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Why change what has always worked so well?

Trying to vertically/horizontally align objects to separate them equally no longer works the way it has for the last 20 years, so, now what? When I try to align object it is requiring a "key object", this is not helpful at all and please tell me there's a way to re-set this back to a legacy setting?

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Correct answer Srishti Bali

Hi there,

Sorry about this trouble. We've fixed the bug with Align tool in the latest release. Please update Illustrator to v24.2.1 to get this fixed.

Here's a link with more details: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-bugs/suggestions/40681714-align-to-key-o...

Regards,

Srishti

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VarunSharma

Community Manager

Hi Everyone,

We have fixed this bug in our latest release – v 24.2.1 which is available worldwide now. Thanks for your patience on this.

Please note that after upgrading you might still see that Align To sets itself to Align to Key Object. If you see this, please manually set the Align To to the required setting, and this reported bug will not happen again. You'll need to this one time only.

The reason Align To might get set to Key Object after update is because Ai remembers your last Align To on subsequent launches as well. So, if your last Align To was Key Object before quitting/upgrading, after first multi-selection, it will set itself to Key Object. After you manually change it one-time, it will work fine.

You can update to the latest release using Creative Cloud desktop App: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/creative-cloud/help/creative-cloud-updates.html

Thanks,

Varun

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wlym

Known Participant

Umm, no, you haven't fixed the bug. I'm up to date and the problem is still a problem. And please don't message me to "contact an Adobe technician for help with my problem" because no, I do not have the time to delete my preferences and delete Illustrator, re-install Illustrator and then rebuild all my Workspaces since there's no easy way to back them up. Every time, no matter what the bug, it's the same "help".

Monika Gause

Community Expert

After installing version 24.2.1 you will have to reset Preferences.

And then you have to do the following (quoted from the post by Varun Sharma):

Please note that after upgrading you might still see that Align To sets itself to Align to Key Object. If you see this, please manually set the Align To to the required setting, and this reported bug will not happen again. You'll need to this one time only.

The reason Align To might get set to Key Object after update is because Ai remembers your last Align To on subsequent launches as well. So, if your last Align To was Key Object before quitting/upgrading, after first multi-selection, it will set itself to Key Object. After you manually change it one-time, it will work fine.

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lisam20335039

Participant

I've just run the new Illustrator update (24.2) and can't get my head around the new 'Distribute Spacing'.

Previously, if I wanted to space elements on my cardboard equidistantly I would select all of them and press the button, this would create equal space between all of them. Now, when I select the elements, one of those becomes the 'key' and when I press the button to space them out - all of the elements shift to the 'key' and sit next to each other rather than spacing equidistantly.

If I remove the 'key' element I get an error message, which says: "Please select a key in the current document."

Am I being a dope and missing something relatively easy or does anyone else have the same problem or even better, a solution?

Doug A Roberts

Community Expert

It's a bug:

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-bugs/suggestions/40681714-align-to-key-object-automatic-selection-in-align-p

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Bajito Onda

Participant

A NEW ISSUE NEVER SEEN BEFORE

WHEN I HAVE SAY 20 OF A GRAPHIC OR WORD AND I WANT TO SPACE EQUALLY THEM DOWN THE WORK PAGE LAYOUT - ONE OF THEM IS SUPER HIGHLIGHTED AND ALL THE OTHERS JUMP ON TOP OF THAT ONE. THEY DO NOT SPACE OUT FROM SAY TOP TO BOTTOM EQUALLY AS THEY ALWAYS HAVE.

THEY ARE OK AS LONG AS THEY ARE ALL SPREAD OUT AND I USE ALIGN LEFT, RIGHT, CENTER ETC.

BUT THE SPACING IS ALL MESSED UP.

THANKS FOR ANY HELP

Srishti Bali

Community Manager

Hi there,

Sorry about the trouble this issue has caused. We've fixed the bug with Align tool in the latest release. Please update Illustrator to v24.2.1 to get this fixed.

Here's a link with more details: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-bugs/suggestions/40681714-align-to-key-o...

Regards,

Srishti

elrossothematch

Participant

Hiya Folks,

I recently updated to the new Illustrator update and have encountered an issue with the Horizontal and Vertical Distribute Center button and would like to know if there is any way to fix the issue.

When I want to distribute numerous shapes evenly I select them and hit the Distribute Centre button but instead of evenly distributing the shapes, they now all gather in the center is if I pressed the centre align button.

Has anyone else enountered this problem? Any advice as to how to remedy this?

Cheers

Monika Gause

Community Expert

Align&Distribute has a bug and the engineers are already working on it.

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bscharr

Participant

Anyone have issues with the alignment tools in the newest version of Adobe Illustrator (2020)? The alignment tools seem to be all screwed up. 'Align left' will go right, right goes left and the new one is that 'distribute' crams everything end to end. Is there a setting that makes everything the opposite that was before the update?

Thanks!

Monika Gause

Community Expert

It's a bug and the engineers are working on it already.

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daeyeopb60090577

Participant

After updating Illustrator to version 24.2 (Latest version. June 2020).

'Align to key object' seems to be a basic option for aligning when I select multiple objects on my project.

Problem is, once the 'Align to Key object' is activated it stays on even though I had clicked once more on the 'key object' to remove the key object selection.

The only way to change is to go up to the panel and select on other options by clicking a drop-down menu.

Is there any way I can make the changes to the settings like the previous version?

Charu Rajput

Community Expert

Hi,

This is know bug and Adobe team is working on it. For more details you can read the following thread.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator/align-to-key-object-not-working-in-illustrator-2020-24-2/td-p/11213135?page=1

Best regards

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VOD

Participant

Bonjour tout le monde, je suggère sur les futures versions d'Illustrator la possibilité de pouvoir paramétrer par défaut les options d'alignement sans devoir toujours aller dans la boite de dialogue. Là on ne sait jamais trop ce que ça va donner et on perd du temps. Merci ! 🙂

(Hello everyone, I suggest on future versions of Illustrator the possibility of being able to configure the alignment options by default without having to always go to the dialog box. We never know what it will give and we waste time. Thank you ! :))

Charu Rajput

Community Expert

Hi,

This is a bug in latest version of Illustrator. Team is working on it.

The team can always be contacted via http://illustrator.uservoice.com

Best regards

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VOD

Participant

Ok merci beaucoup pour votre réponse

birgerb76458258

Participating Frequently

The align function is not working correctly,

Vers 24.2

Align Top aligns to Bottom

Align Left aligns to Right

Latest version was OK but suddenly the 2017 error appears again in this latest 2020 version

- not very Industrial Standard ! - Can someone contact the team behind...I for sure can not get in contact, I'm only limited to paying 🙂

Monika Gause

Community Expert

It's a bug and the engineers are already working on it.

The engineers can always be contacted via http://illustrator.uservoice.com

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MMsrm

Participant

Hallo zusammen,

seit dem Update auf die Version 24.2 funktioniert bei mir das Werkzeug vertikal zentriert verteilen der Palette Ausrichten nicht mehr. Hat jmd. ähnliche Erfahrungen? Vielen Dank.

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federico platon

Legend

Check first that Align is to Selection not Key object or Artboards, as it selects those other options by default.

If it does not the job, please attach an example before/after. Thanks.

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MMsrm

Participant

Thank you for the Reply,

I am not quite sure, wether I understood correctly … the problem occurs with the horizontal zentriert verteilen-Tool, too … attached, as requested 3 examples. Thank you!

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kcelsi1999

Inspiring

Hello. I recently updated Illustrator to the newest version and now my align tool doesn't work. Also when I select multiple items, one of the items has a darker selection around it. When I try to align them evenly, they all align to the darker hightlighted item instead of evenly. Why is this happenning??? See the attached video to see what I am referring to. Here also is a link to the video that will be available for 7 days from the date of this post: https://flashbackconnect.com/Default.aspx?id=IPlNG5NAm_cZJxBKD_Ru_A2
Thank you!

Align_Issue.zip