Anyone know where I can turn off the Auto Styles interactive box on a text frame?

[keithb700496]

Adobe is messing with my flow.

I do newspapers in Indesign. At the start of filling in content on a newspaper I grab a range of individual word docs in the OS and drop them onto the page, rapidly click them off in a horizontal row, select them all and then apply body style with a hot key. From there I figure out where I'm going to put them and the rest of the formatting.

In ID2023 they've added the maddening "feature" of popping up the gray box with a "T" in it on the bottom of any story box where the contents are longer than the box draw on placement. It goes away if the user does any click/keystroke. Clicking on the box applies an Auto Style from the ether, and opens the Styles panes.

So instead of being able to smoothly go through clicks that each result in a text frame placement, I'm now having to frequently double click every time I place a longer story jsut to make the Auto Styles box go away. I'm a high actions per minute guy, and it's driving me up the wall.

I've rooted around in the prefrences and Googled, but haven't found a solution. I've gone through similar instances of this with Adobe's historic "smart" handles and doodads they love to clutter up frames with but I haven't found my way to a solution for this yet. If anyone knows how to make this stop I'll be eternally grateful

Phone shot included since any keystroke makes the thing go away.

[Mike Bro · Accepted solution]

Hello @keithb700496 

Go to > prefrences > Clipboard handling and deselect "Show Auto Style Option"

Regards,

Mike

[keithb700496]

Awesome that got it.

I guess my brain didn't connect the drag and drop with pasting/clipboard. Because I know I looked right at it and said "That can't be it." ;-D

Thank you!

[Steve K Walker]

This is in an illogical location.
It should be under VIEW > EXTRAS.
That, for me, would make sense. It's where you find all the other "amateur" things such as the CONTENT GRABBER.
;o)

[stephaniea63886159]

thanks! Had the same problem.

[Gerri27278681j2oi]

That was VERY helpful Mike, thanks! Keith, I agree...that is a very annoying feature.

[drvinn]

Thank you! this was driving me nuts!

[rcoda1]

THANK YOU! WhyTF is this not under the Type or Advanced Type section in preferences? These $%^&* programmers... this is the equivalent of changing the label design on the orange juice at the supermarket... then NO ONE can find the OJ!

[greensusie51]

Your right  a 'maddening' 'feature' this just happened to me... very annoying to have to get rid of a 'feature' that gave rubbish autostyle anyway! It seems Adobe are gradually trying to dumb down and automate a lot of their software with their pop up boxes of 'helpful info' to open it up to non -designers. Lets just hope it doesnt gradually turn into microsoftword !!

[wlym]

Liquid Layout, Autostyle Text, that frustrating Color Theme Tool that the eyedropper tool now defaults to (oh boy, 5 colors sampled from a photo?! Formerly required a design degree.) … and the bugs accumulate. I guess these things make a better looking bullet point list than "• Fixed a few of the bugs that we introduced in the last dozen updates."

[greensusie51]

:)))) so right!

[aworthycause]

Cannot agree more. That color theme default eye dropper is infuriating.