Arrow tool selecting text when I don't want it to

[kevins42458544]

This just started happening: When I click on a text box with the arrow tool twice (not a double click, just s slow 2nd click), it tries to link to another text box. Or if I try to option click to select an item below it does the same thing. It's really messing with my workflow.

Any ideas how to shut this off?

[Randy Hagan]

Yes. Speed up the double-click settings in your operating system:

In Windows 10-11, Go to your Settings dialog box from your Start menu, to the Devices section, then choose Mouse from the list at left, click the Additional Mouse Settings link, then choose the Buttons tab and change the double-click setting to as fast as you can reasonably activate/de-activate the proxy. If you're using Windows 7 or 8, you can go to the Control Panel and navigate your way to the Mouse/Keyboard section and do the same thing.

On Macs, you can do the same thing by opening System Preferences, choose the Accessibility preferences, choose Pointer Control from the list at left and then speed up your double-click speed as appropriate.

Hope this helps,

Randy

[Barb Binder]

Hi @kevins42458544:

Where are you clicking on the text frame? Over the words, or over the in port or out port?

If over the ports, that is expected behavior. If over the words, the consider rebuilding cache/preferences. 

https://www.rockymountaintraining.com/adobe-indesign-rebuilding-preferences-cache/

~Barb

EDIT: double clicking the text with the Selection tool is a shortcut to change to the Type tool. It shouldn't be loading the text cursor or offering up the text frame link icon, but as per your title, it will add an insertion point, and if you keep clicking, it will select text. 

[kevins42458544]

Yeah I was clicking in the centre of the box, I'm familiar with the ports. Funny thing, I just restarted my mac and it's gone away. Now double clicking is back to the shortcut to text tool. Must have rebuilt the preferences on restart?

[kevins42458544]

I have PDF comments loaded, and now it's doing it if I click on a text box and then click on a comment line, like where they've circled something and added a comment a comment, it does the link thing. Must be a glitch where the text box contained comments, so when I clicked twice it did that.

[kevins42458544]

Yep it's definitely connected to the PDF comments.