ALT Drag for Duplicate not working in CC

[LittleNewsMan]

I use the alt (option) drag to duplicate items all the time. I just made the switch over to InDesign CC from CS6, and now it doesn't work. The odd thing though is when I hold down alt and hover over an object, my cursor does change to the double arrow, as if the duplicate function is going to work. But when I go to drag (obv. while holding down on alt), and let go, the object simply moves with no duplication occurring.

Has anyone else experienced this? Any ideas on how to fix this?

[Jimbo8364]

Glad it helped! Would love to mark it as the answer, but not sure how to do that.

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[BobLevine]

Please note that when you reply by email, your answers still go to the web based forum, including your personal info.

I deleted it from your last post.

[Jimbo8364]

Thank you! My solution seems to work for several people and I find it helpful to have the answer appear at the top. Can you mark it as Correct? I don't see where to do it.

[The Combination Rule]

THIS WORKS!!!!

[mildog78]

You da man.

[MLDLondon]

Nice one. This worked for me. Cheers.

[paulsyng]

It's finally working again 🙂

[matts48820935]

Just upgrade to 2015 and this is also happening to me. Really stupidly annoying. Changing the interface preferences didn't seem to work either...

[overdiep]

grrrr, same problem here...

[ChrisDLR]

Seriously, any chance this could be fixed? None of the workarounds fix this to function the way it used to.

Best I can manage is that I can alt + drag  to copy a single page at time unless I want the duplicate pages to be hurled to last page as opposed to the next page in sequence or wherever I tell it to go. I design sets of cards and web banners sets in a series that routinely go 50 pages deep, so having to scroll all the way down to retrieve a duplicated set is infuriating.

[jolaflor]

This might sounds crazy.. but shut down all your other applications and try it again. For me this issue and one other issue in Photoshop was fixed by simply closing Chrome.

You can also test this by opening your file in a fresh new User Account and see if the issue exists, if it doesn't then you know something running in the background is interfering with InDesign.

[ChrisDLR]

It's not crazy, I haven't tried that. It unfortunately didn't make a difference.

I have two machines that I alternate between, one strictly has design programs on it and the only background program is CC itself, the other a combination of my home and work. Neither of them work in the way it used to.

[Rozberries]

I tried updating the Interface settings and restarting InDesign again. No luck. Shift drag and Shift+Option drag are NOT working and this is a serious impact on my productivity.

Any work Adobe? This start on my last update.

[Rozberries]

Actually I might have solved my own question. This is a bug that I similar to one I occasionally run into with Ilustratror because I noticed that the Space Drag wasn't working either.

I need to shut down my Browser (In this case, Chrome) and open it up again. It clears up the click/drag bug.

[sergiosaucedo1]

I cant see that option.-.....

[jane-e]

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I cant see that option.-.....

Sergio, this is a thread from 2013. Can you please specify what option you don't see and also what your problem is? If might be best to start a new thread.