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On Windows: Pushing the arrow up on the keyboard while holding Alt and drag (a bit tricky with only two hands, but use the Alt-gr) will give you more duplicates. Pushing the arrow down on the keyboard while holding Alt and drag will reduce number of duplicates.
I'm also an ACP so I tried all the normal troubleshooting prior to posting.
Resetting the current version and removing caches did nothing.
The solution we found was to completely blow away the folders for any version of InDesign in the ~Library/Caches and ~Library/Preferences and then restarting the entire machine not just the current version.
The user had 2018 and older folders still in the Library from previous upgrades.
I'm theorizing that leaving previous version preference or cache from
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I understand that this is a bug because it is happening unexpectedly to many of you, but you can also harness this as a feature. (And one I was personally unaware of.)
It's similar to Edit > Step and Repeat but with equal distribution between the outermost objects. If you can get your fingers to cooperate, you can duplicate an object with Alt/Opt and then add/subtract shapes in the middle with the up/down arrows while continuting to hold down the Alt/Opt and mouse button.
~Barb
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