Ability to scroll box corners

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August 14, 2021
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Just upgraded to Adobe InDesign CC. Right away, I encounter the frustration of a vital feature missing. When I click on a picture to change the corners, I can no longer SCROLL through the options (Fancy, Bevel, etc.). Instead, I have to click on the icon each time and then click on each choice individually! That's 12 clicks instead of one click and one scroll!! Please restore!

Feature request

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Ashutosh_Mishra

Inspiring

Hi @snooque,

Sorry to hear about your experience. Peter has suggested some great troubleshooting steps. In addition to those, I'd recommend following this community post & let us know if they help with your concern.

Looking forward to your response.

Regards,

Ashutosh

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snooqueAuthor

Inspiring

I've had no luck, having received mixed messages: simultaneouos scroll & preview for corner options (and effects/blending modes) on a selected box is and is not a bug; is and is not possible; does and does not exist. By 'scroll' I mean using the arrow keys to scroll up and down to preview the options without having to click, reopen, click, reopen, etc. I've asked and searched and tried every suggestion. It seems a very odd feature to go missing. It's still possible to scroll/preview fonts and colours in a selected box, for example, but not corners and blends (which was possible in CS4, CS6). I recently subscribed to CC with a new laptop, so there's no messiness to account for these missing features I often use/need. BTW, I didn't see anything on the community post link about this issue. I did submit it as a bug, and it seems this feature did not make the leap from CS to CC. Thanks for checking in!

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snooqueAuthor

Inspiring

Wow, perhaps it was the recent CC update ... Eugene Tyson had earlier suggested I try Shift-Tab to activate the scroll/preview function for Effects. It worked until Peter Spier suggested I open in safe mode to sort out any possible conflicts. After that the shift-tab solution stopped working. TODAY, on a whim, I tried again (I try almost every day). Shift-Tab (on 'Opacity') not only activated scroll/preview for Effects, it also activated the scroll/preview function for Corner Options!! Thank you for everyone's input and patience.

Peter Spier

Community Expert

I'm not seeing any difference here from CS6. I'm on Windows 10.

Alt-click the corner effect badge to cycle through the options (which does all four corners at once) or use the Object Menu to go to the Corner Effects dialog where you can choose from a drop-down and do each corner individually or click the chain link to do them all. If you want them the same, Alt-click seems faster.

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snooqueAuthor

Inspiring

I should add that I can scroll the list(s), but cannot preview the options in the selected box. I must reopen and reclick each option.

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snooqueAuthor

Inspiring

Have you tried trashing your prefs?

Reset InDesign Preferences and Other Troubleshooting

Trashing ... That's a little scary! I subscribed and downloaded Adobe CC to a new computer; no earlier version(s) of Adobe CS or CC programs were ever on this computer. So it's pristine. I read through the instructions for resetting preferences, and it provides options I don't have the knowledge to select (simply delete & restart, or protect a back-up copy, and/or delete files ...), fearing a whole new set of problems. I'm going to live with it for now and hope an update might fix it. BTW, I noticed the problem within minutes of opening InDesign for the first time and creating a new document to customize the workspace, control panel, etc. Perhaps another app is causing the problem ...